L. vaginalis Induces a Greater Immune Response than Other Vaginal Lactobacilli.

Confluent monolayers of reproductive epithelia were inoculated with commensal lactobacilli or BVAB, and after 24 hr conditioned media was analyzed for IL-6, IL-8 and hBD2 protein. BVAB are filled black bars, L. vaginalis is hatched, and all other lactobacilli are white bars. MOI are the same as in Figure 5. Protein is shown as fold expression compared to a mock-treated condition, and one, two, or three asterisks indicate values that are significantly (p<0.05, p<0.01, or p<0.001, respectively) different from the L. vaginalis-treated condition.