Jiarong Song, Xue Dong, Yue Lan, Yunwei Lu, Xu Liu, Xuena Kang, Zhonglu Huang, Bisong Yue, Yu Liu, Wenjin Ma, Libo Zhang, Haijun Yan, Miao He, Zhenxin Fan, Tao Guo
Although vaginitis is closely related to vaginal microecology in females, the precise composition and functional potential of different types of vaginitis remain unclear. Here, metagenomic sequencing was applied to analyze the vaginal flora in patients with various forms of vaginitis, including cases with a clue cell proportion ranging from 1% to 20% (Clue1_20), bacterial vaginitis (BV), vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), and BV combined with VVC (VVC_BV). Our results identified Prevotella as an important biomarker between BV and Clue1_20...
February 16, 2024: MSystems