Quantifying the human vaginal community state types (CSTs) with the species specificity index

The five community state types (CSTs) first identified by Ravel et al. (2011) offered a powerful scheme to classify the states of human vaginal microbial communities (HVMC). The classification is a significant advance because it devised an effective handle to deal with the enormous inter-subject het...

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Main Authors: Zhanshan (Sam) Ma, Lianwei Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-06-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/3366.pdf