Composition of the vaginal microbiota during pregnancy in women living in sub-Saharan Africa: a PRISMA-compliant review

Table 2 Different types of vaginal microbiota Lactobacillaceae clusters in pregnant women in the sub-Saharan African region

Included articles that used VMB clustering	Price et al.	Gudza et al.	Brabin et al.	Borgdorff et al.	Gautam et al.	Bisanz et al.	Frank et al.	Donders et al.
Name of cluster	Community state type (CST)			ClusterR	Cluster KRST	Not formulated	Genus-level clustering	morpho-types grades
Lactobacillus dominant						✓	Cluster 1	Grade 1
L.crispatus dominant	CST-I	CST-I	CST-I	R-I	KRST-I
L.gasseri dominant	CST-II	CST-II
L.iners dominant	CST-III	CST-III	CST-III	R-II	KRST-II
L.jensenii	CST-V	CST-V

CST community state types numeric system described by Ravel et al., [2]. R-clusters, vaginal microbiota cluster method in Rwandese women as described in Borgdorff et al. [36]. KRST-clusters, vaginal microbiota cluster method in Kenyan, Rwandese, South African and Tanzanian women as describe in Gautam et al. [8]

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