Quantitation of all Four Gardnerella vaginalis Clades Detects Abnormal Vaginal Microbiota Characteristic of Bacterial Vaginosis More Accurately than Putative G. vaginalis Sialidase A Gene Count.
Elena ShipitsynaAnna KrysanovaGuzel Anvarovna KhayrullinaKira V ShalepoAlevtina M SavichevaAlexandr Evgenjevich GuschinMagnus UnemoPublished in: Molecular diagnosis & therapy (2019)
Quantifying all four G. vaginalis clades discriminates between BV microbiota and normal microbiota more accurately than measuring G. vaginalis sialidase A gene. Clade 4 is strongly associated with BV microbiota, despite most clade 4 strains lacking the sialidase A gene.