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Previous studies have found that there are specific changes in the intestinal flora of PCOS patients, and interventions to modify the intestinal flora can significantly improve the symptoms of PCOS. Women with PCOS have a higher incidence of vaginitis compared to healthy women. Few studies to-date have focused on investigating vaginal flora. Here, we aimed to explore distribution changes of the vaginal microbiome in PCOS patients. We recruited 42 PCOS patients (T-PCOS) and 24 healthy controls (T-control). 16s rRNA gene sequencing was used to sequence their vaginal microbiome. Normally, Lactobacillus was dominated in vaginal.\n                    <jats:italic>Lactobacillus-<\/jats:italic>\n                    dominated-type vaginal microbiome in T-PCOS and T-control (L-PCOS and L-control) and non-\n                    <jats:italic>Lactobacillus-<\/jats:italic>\n                    dominated-type vaginal microbiome in T-PCOS and T-control (N-PCOS and N-control) were analyzed separately. A total of 655 operational taxonomic units were detected in this sequencing, including 306 unique to T-PCOS, 202 unique to T-control, and 147 common between the two groups. At the genus level,\n                    <jats:italic>Lactobacillus<\/jats:italic>\n                    accounted for more than 70% of the total microbiome. Observed species (P = 0.021), Chao1 index (P = 0.020), and ACE index (P = 0.023) decreased significantly in L-PCOS. Principal component analysis showed no statistically significant differences among the subgroups. There were significant statistical differences in principal coordinate analysis in the Jaccard distance between the T-PCOS and T-control groups and between the L-PCOS and L-control groups. Linear discriminant analysis effect size found that\n                    <jats:italic>Enterococcus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Actinomycetes<\/jats:italic>\n                    were significantly different in the T-PCOS group.\n                    <jats:italic>Atopobium<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Actinomyces<\/jats:italic>\n                    were statistically significantly different in patients with L-PCOS and N-PCOS group, respectively. Environmental factor analysis found that\n                    <jats:italic>Ezakiella<\/jats:italic>\n                    was significantly negatively correlated with age, while\n                    <jats:italic>Streptococcus<\/jats:italic>\n                    was significantly negatively correlated with follicle stimulating hormone. There were statistically significant differences between PCOS patients and healthy women in the vaginal microbiome, regardless of the abundance of\n                    <jats:italic>Lactobacillus<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Alpha diversity of vaginal microbiome decreased markedly in PCOS patients when it was dominated by\n                    <jats:italic>Lactobacillus<\/jats:italic>\n                    spp.\n                    <jats:italic>Actinomyces<\/jats:italic>\n                    could be a potential biomarker to identify PCOS.\n                    <jats:italic>Streptococcus<\/jats:italic>\n                    may have an impact on the pathological changes in PCOS by affecting the female reproductive endocrine environment.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fcimb.2021.755741","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,3]],"date-time":"2021-11-03T06:40:31Z","timestamp":1635921631000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":37,"title":["Changes in Vaginal Microbiome Diversity in Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Chaoyi","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hui","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jihong","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinyue","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yao","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ruizhi","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yun","family":"Qian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"321","DOI":"10.1097\/AOG.0000000000002698","article-title":"Polycystic Ovary Syndrome","volume":"132","author":"Azziz","year":"2018","journal-title":"Obstet. 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