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. 2021 Jun 15;13(6):7148-7155.
eCollection 2021.

Associations between bacterial vaginosis, candida vaginitis, trichomonas vaginalis, and vaginal pathogenic community in Chinese women

Dandan Yuan  1 , Wen Chen  2 , Junjie Qin  3 , Dongqian Shen  3 , Youlin Qiao  2 , Beihua Kong  1
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Associations between bacterial vaginosis, candida vaginitis, trichomonas vaginalis, and vaginal pathogenic community in Chinese women

Dandan Yuan et al. Am J Transl Res. .

Abstract

Background: To investigate the associations between Vaginal Pathogenic Community with Bacterial vaginosis, Candida vaginitis, and Trichomonas vaginalis in Chinese women.

Method: In this experiment, ten BV, nine VVC, eight TV patients, and four non-infected healthy women were recruited. The vaginal samples were collected from the vaginal orifice, the middle of the vagina, and vaginal fornix from every participant and conducted with next-generation sequencing (NGS). The NGS was based upon the analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA genes by using the Illumina Miseq system.

Results: No significant difference in microbiome community structures was observed for the three sampling sites from the same subject. Compared with the healthy population, patients with BV and TV showed more diverse symptoms and had a lower amount of Lactobacillus but a higher number of BV-related bacteria like Atopobium, Dialister, Sneathia, Mobiluncus, and Prevotella. On the contrary, the species composition of the VVC group is relatively simple, which has a significantly high abundance of Lactobacillus. Eight genera, including Arcanobacterium, Clostridium, Moryella, Mobiluncus, Shuttleworthia, Dialister, Bulleidia, and Megasphaera, were closely correlated with BV. Among vaginal pathogenic bacteria, Anaerococcus, Lysobacter, Mycoplasma, Peptoniphilus, Sneathia, and Prevotella were more common, with higher copy numbers in the TV group.

Conclusions: The data outlined the overall structure of vaginal communities, indicating that BV and TV were touching related to a sharp increase in the rich taxonomy and diversity of vaginal microbiota. VVC group presented a lower variety, with a significantly high abundance of Lactobacillus.

Keywords: Bacterial vaginosis; candida vaginitis; diversity; next-generation sequencing 16S rRNA gene (16SrDNA); trichomonas vaginalis; vaginal microbiome.

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