Fig. 3

Individual urinary microbiota of healthy men and women and women during acute BV clustered according to urotypes. Clustering of samples was performed based on the Euclidean distance using the Ward clustering method in R. The 19 most abundant OTUs are shown and all others (<1.2% rel. abundance each) are summarized as “others”. Urotypes (UTs) 1–8 with subtypes are indicated in the boxes above the relative abundance plot. Colored boxes above the abundance plot indicate sample source and grey boxes decode diversity (H′)