ArticleFrontiers in public health2020
Community State Types of Vaginal Microbiota and Four Types of Abnormal Vaginal Microbiota in Pregnant Korean Women.
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- Progress in interventions for vaginal microecology.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Review
- Glycan Profile Alterations in Vaginitis and Their Role in Pathogen-Host Interactions.Polish journal of microbiology · 2025Review
- Dysbiosis of vaginal and peritoneal fluid microbiota in patients with cervical lesions.BMC women's health · 2025Article
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- Microbial influences on HPV infection and cervical carcinogenesis: emerging evidence from the vaginal microbiome.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- Vaginal microbiota of pregnant women withFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Article
- Etiology of recurrent cystitis in postmenopausal women based on vaginal microbiota and the role ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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- Intestinal microbiota research from a global perspective.Gastroenterology report · 2022Review
- Clinical Significance of Composition and Functional Diversity of the Vaginal Microbiome in Recurrent Vaginitis.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Direct on-swab metabolic profiling of vaginal microbiome host interactions during pregnancy and preterm birth.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Composition of Vaginal Microbiota in Pregnant Women With Aerobic Vaginitis.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Article
- Endometrial Microbiome and Implantation: From Basic Knowledge to Clinical Medicine.Reproductive medicine and biologyReview
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Abstract
Abnormal vaginal microbiota (AVM), including bacterial vaginosis (BV), is caused by a microbiota imbalance. Nugent scoring is the gold standard for the laboratory diagnosis of BV; however, it is somewhat subjective to interpret, and challenging to distinguish bacteria. Hence, there is a need for improved technologies for the accurate diagnosis of AVM. To this end, next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has been shown to yield comprehensive information on the pathophysiology of AVM. Hence, to evaluate the relationship between microbiota composition and the pathophysiology of AVM and its clinical significance, we characterized vaginal swab samples from 212 pregnant Korean women using both Nugent scoring and NGS analysis. Of these, the Nugent scoring identified 175 subjects (82.5%; 175/212) with normal flora (NF), 20 (9.4%; 20/212) with intermediate flora (IF), and 17 (8.0%; 17/212) with BV. NGS analysis followed by the characterization of vaginal microbiota composition, as represented by alpha and beta diversity, revealed the relative abundance of specific bacterial taxa at the genus and species level. Moreover, we identified all five predominant community state types (CSTs) along with three smaller CSTs. Analysis of the vaginal microbiota revealed the dominance of one or two
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