CST1 and bacterial vaginosis: Our results demonstrated that the L. crispatus load was closely related to CST1 regardless CVD etiology (Figure 3A) and this species can be an important part of CVD microbiota of the yeast etiology, which agrees with its presence in women with dysbiotic microbiota such as BV or VVC (Teixeira et al., 2012; Ravel et al., 2011).