Differences in the Composition of Vaginal Microbiota between Women Exhibiting Spleen-Deficiency Syndrome and Women with Damp-Heat Syndrome, Two of the Most Common Syndromes of Vaginitis in Traditional Chinese Medicine

<div>16S rRNA sequencing analysis and taxonomy classification of the vaginal microbiome at the genus level. (a) The flow chart of sequence preprocessing, quality control and chimera detection. (b) Relative abundance of dominant and rare genus in samples of healthy volunteers and BV patients. (c) Relative abundance of dominant and rare genus in samples with different TCM syndromes. (d) Relative abundance of dominant and rare genus in spleen-deficiency syndrome of healthy volunteers and BV samples. (e) Relative abundance of dominant and rare genus in damp-heat syndrome of healthy volunteers and BV samples. PE: paired-end, OTU: operational taxonomic units, BV: bacterial vaginitis.</div>

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Figure 3: Differences in the Composition of Vaginal Microbiota between Women Exhibiting Spleen-Deficiency Syndrome and Women with Damp-Heat Syndrome, Two of the Most Common Syndromes of Vaginitis in Traditional Chinese Medicine 

Figure 3 | Differences in the Composition of Vaginal Microbiota between Women Exhibiting Spleen-Deficiency Syndrome and Women with Damp-Heat Syndrome, Two of the Most Common Syndromes of Vaginitis in Traditional Chinese Medicine 