Associations between prevalence of BV candidate organisms and lifetime sexual partners
| Candidate organism | Megasphaera spp. detected (prevalence %) | Sneathia spp. prevalence detected (prevalence %) | Leptotrichia spp. detected (prevalence %) | L crispatus prevalence detected (prevalence %) | G vaginalis prevalence detected (prevalence %) | BVAB1 prevalence detected (prevalence %) | BVAB2 prevalence detected (prevalence %) | BVAB3 prevalence detected (prevalence %) | A vaginae prevalence detected (prevalence %) |
| Women with normal flora | |||||||||
| Lifetime sexual partners | |||||||||
| 0 | 2/79 (3) | 3/79 (4) | 3/79 (4) | 45/79 (57) | 24/79 (30) | 0/79 | 0/79 (0) | 0/79 | 53/79 (67) |
| 1–10 | 1/82 (1) | 4/82 (5) | 3/82 (4) | 60/82 (73) | 41/82 (50) | 0/82 | 6/82 (7) | 0/82 | 56/82 (68) |
| >10 | 6/72 (8) | 10/72 (14) | 12/72 (17) | 59/72 (82) | 49/72 (68) | 0/72 | 6/72 (8) | 2/72 (3) | 34/72 (48) |
| p for trend | 0.1 | 0.03 | 0.006 | 0.001 | <0.001 | Undefined | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.02 |
| Women with BV | |||||||||
| Lifetime sexual partners | |||||||||
| 0 | 1/3 (33) | 1/3 (33) | 1/3 (33) | 1/3 (33) | 3/3 (100) | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | 2/3 (67) |
| 1-10 | 12/33 (36) | 17/33 (52) | 16/33 (49) | 11/33 (33) | 31/33 (94) | 1/33 (3) | 18/33 (55) | 4/33 (12) | 33/33 (100) |
| >10 | 12/69 (17) | 60/69 (87) | 59/69 (86) | 35/69 (51) | 69/69 (100) | 6/69 (9) | 54/69 (78) | 13/69 (19) | 67/67 (100) |
| p for trend | 0.07 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.004 | 0.3 | 0.04 |