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High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is effective invasive treatment for fibroids in women who are not good surgical candidates. Whether HIFU of uterine fibroids will cause the change in vaginal microbiota has not been reported. We aimed to investigate the vaginal microbiota of UF patients with\/without HIFU treatment using 16S rRNA gene sequencing.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Vaginal secretions were collected from 77 UF patients (pre-operative and post-operative) and were used for comparative composition, diversity, and richness analyses of microbial communities.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The microbial \u03b1-diversity was significantly lower in the vaginal of UF patients with HIFU treatment. The relative abundance of some pathogenic bacteria of UF patients with HIFU treatment were significantly decreased in the bacterial phylum and genus level. <jats:italic>Proteobacteria<\/jats:italic> were found to be significantly upregulated as a biomarker in the HIFU treatment group in our study.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>These findings might confirm the effectiveness of HIFU treatment from the point of view of microbiota.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2023.1138962","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,17]],"date-time":"2023-04-17T05:59:19Z","timestamp":1681711159000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Alterations in vaginal microbiota in uterine fibroids patients with ultrasound-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Ping-Ping","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xue-Ping","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wen","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Han-Wei","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuan-Yuan","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pbio.3000788","article-title":"Glycan cross-feeding supports mutualism between Fusobacterium and the vaginal microbiota.","volume":"18","author":"Agarwal","year":"2020","journal-title":"PLoS Biol."},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"171","DOI":"10.1007\/s00404-009-1107-z","article-title":"Acinetobacter baumannii infection during pregnancy and puerperium.","volume":"281","author":"Aivazova","year":"2010","journal-title":"Arch. 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