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

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PCoA of the dissimiliarities among bacterial community taxonomical structure using Unifrac distance. (a) PCoA plot of the samples among healthy and BV patients. (b) PCoA plot of the samples between spleen-deficiency syndrome and damp-heat syndrome. (c) PCoA plot of the healthy volunteers’ samples between the two syndromes. (d) PCoA plot of the BV patients’ samples between the two syndromes. (e) AMOVA results of the BV and normal control group by unweighted Unifrac distance. (f) AMOVA results of the BV and normal control group by weighted unifrac distance. PCoA: principal coordination analysis, AMOVA: analysis of molecular variance. (represents , PC1 represents the first principal component, PC2 represents the second principal component).

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