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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2010. Antibiotic Resistance: Implications for Global Health and Novel Intervention Strategies: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12925.
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Appendix C
Acronyms

AGISAR Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance

AGP antimicrobial growth promoters

AIDS acquired immune deficiency syndrome

AMR antimicrobial resistance

APUA Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics Ara-C Arabinofuranosyl Cytidine

ARI antimicrobial-resistant infection

AST antimicrobial susceptibility testing

ATCC American Type Culture Collection

BARDA Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority

CAC Codex Alimentarius Commission

CA-MRSA community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

CAP community acquired pneumonia

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CF cystic fibrosis

CI confidence interval

CLSI Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute

CTX-M cefotaximase

DANMAP Danish Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Research Programme

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2010. Antibiotic Resistance: Implications for Global Health and Novel Intervention Strategies: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12925.
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DDT dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

DNA deoxyribonucleic acid

DRG diagnosis-related group

ECDC European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

EMEA European Medicines Agency

ESBL extended-spectrum β-lactamase

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FDA Food and Drug Administration

GMP good manufacturing practice

HHS United States Department of Health and Human Services

Hib Haemophilus influenza type b

HIV human immunodeficiency virus

ICE integrative conjugative element

ICH International Conference on Harmonization

IDSA Infectious Diseases Society of America

IMCI Integrated Management of Childhood Illness

IMPACT International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce

IND investigational new drug

IOM Institute of Medicine

IPO initial public offering

KPC Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase

MALDI-TOF matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight

MDR multidrug resistant

MIC minimal inhibitory concentration

MRSA methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

MSSA methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus

NDA new drug application

NHSN National Healthcare Safety Network

NIH National Institutes of Health

NTA non-therapeutic antimicrobial

OIE World Organisation for Animal Health

PAMTA Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act

PDR pan-drug resistant

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2010. Antibiotic Resistance: Implications for Global Health and Novel Intervention Strategies: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12925.
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PK-PD pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic

PVL Panton–Valentine leukocidin

RNA ribonucleic acid

R&D research and development

ROAR Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance

ROS reactive oxygen species

SCCmec staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec

STAAR Act Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resistance Act

TA toxin-antitoxin

TB tuberculosis

UV ultraviolet

VICP Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

VISA vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus

VRE vancomycin-resistant enterococci

VRSA vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

WHA World Health Assembly

WHO World Health Organization

XDR extensively drug-resistant

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2010. Antibiotic Resistance: Implications for Global Health and Novel Intervention Strategies: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12925.
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