Fig. 3

The compositional profiles of the top 10 genera and dendrogram of the 4 sample grouping schemes (participants were grouped based on infections, menstrual cycle, childbearing history and infections & with or without gestation, respectively). The left side showed the genera and phylum (in parenthesis) that the genus were affiliated to with the average relative abundance (%) of each genus in the total 111 women shown in parenthesis. The dendrogram in the middle was based on hierarchical clustering using complete linkage of Unweighted UniFrac distance of the OUT table. Each horizontal bar in the right represents the compositional profile averaged within each sample group wherein the number in each bar indicates the percentage of genus lactobacillus. Only the top 10 abundant genera were shown and the other genera after the top 10 ones were artificially merged into one genus named ‘Others’