Archived self-collected vaginal swabs were utilized from a pilot study of vaginal douching cessation (NIH/NIAID R03-AI061131). Thirty-nine non-pregnant, reproductive-age women who reported the use of
This strain is being sequenced as a reference for the Demonstration Project "The Vaginal Microbiome: Disease, Genetics and the Environment" of the Human Microbiome Project (HMP).
WGS was conducted on DNA obtained from 20 vaginal swabs collected at four-time points over a period of 12 months from five randomly selected African-American (AA) women. The baseline visit (first-time
