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From: The composition and stability of the vaginal microbiota of normal pregnant women is different from that of non-pregnant women

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Estimates of community change over time in non-pregnant and pregnant women who delivered at term. (A) Jensen-Shannon distances between each community state and the mean community state for each subject. The larger the distance, the higher the instability of the microbial community within a subject. The mean within-subject log Jensen-Shannon distance of pregnant women was significantly lower than that for non-pregnant women (difference in means -0.473 log units; that is, 1.6-fold lower Jensen-Shannon distance, P < 0.001). (B) Jensen-Shannon distance between each community state and the mean community state of all samples assigned to CST IV-A and CST IV-B. The higher the distance, the less frequently a community enters CST IV-A or CST IV-B. The mean log Jensen-Shannon distance of pregnant women was significantly higher than that for non-pregnant women (difference in means 0.13 log units; that is, 1.14-fold, P < 0.001).

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