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Bacterial vaginosis is driven by a community-level metabolic shift characterized by Lactobacillus depletion and elevated polyamines, rather than strain-specific pathogenesis of Gardnerella species. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To characterize the coordinated metabolomic and genomic features underlying bacterial vaginosis using multi-omics integration.

August 29, 2026npj Women s HealthOpen Access

Multi-omics investigation of metabolomic and microbial features in bacterial vaginosis

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HSHana ShabanaKarolinska University Hospital FDFaruk DubeUppsala University ELEmilia LahtinenUniversity of Helsinki

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Cross-sectional study uncovers distinct microbial and polyamine shifts in women with bacterial vaginosis, suggesting community-level metabolic disruption over single-strain pathogenesis.

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To characterize the coordinated metabolomic and genomic features underlying bacterial vaginosis using multi-omics integration.
Cross-sectional investigation of 111 Swedish women, comprising 29 participants with bacterial vaginosis and 82 controls.
Profiled samples using shotgun metagenomics, targeted LC-MS metabolomics, and Gardnerella metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) reconstruction.
Integrated multi-omic data layers using supervised (DIABLO) and unsupervised (MOFA2) computational methods.
Bacterial vaginosis explained 23.5% of community variance, defined by Lactobacillus depletion, enrichment of canonical anaerobes, elevated polyamines (cadaverine, putrescine, N-acetylputrescine, trimethylamine), and nucleoside depletion.
Both supervised and unsupervised models prioritized Lactobacillus loss and the polyamine producer Dialister micraerophilus over the most abundant bacterial vaginosis taxa.
Analysis of 35 Gardnerella MAGs across nine species revealed no disease-associated accessory genes after correction, though accessory gene content explained 8.5% of metabolome variance independently of diagnosis (p = 0.002).

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Shabana et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9299ac8e5d7d1fc0c11b7a https://doi.org/10.1038/s44294-026-00163-6

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Cross-sectional study uncovers distinct microbial and polyamine shifts in women with bacterial vaginosis, suggesting community-level metabolic disruption over single-strain pathogenesis.

Multi-omics investigation of metabolomic and microbial features in bacterial vaginosis

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Multi-omics investigation of metabolomic and microbial features in bacterial vaginosis

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