Fungal Diseases: An Emerging Threat to Human, Animal, and Plant Health: Workshop Summary (2011)
Chapter: Appendix C: Acronyms
| AARK | Amphibian Ark |
| ACAP | Amphibian Conservation Action Plan |
| AFTOL | Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life program |
| AM | Arbuscular mycorrhizae |
| APHIS | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service |
| B.C. | British Columbia |
| BCCDC | British Columbian Centre for Disease Control |
| Bd | Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis |
| BGRI | Borlaug Global Rust Initiative |
| BWNS | bat white-nose syndrome |
| CANV | Chrysosporium anamorph of Nanniziopsis vriesii |
| CBD | Convention on Biological Diversity |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CFU | colony-forming unit |
| CGB | canavanine-glycine-bromothymol blue |
| CGD | chronic granulomatous disease |
| CGIAR | Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research |
| CIMMYT | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center |
| CITIES | Convention for International Trade of Endangered Species |
| DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DoD-GEIS | Department of Defense-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System |
| DOI | Department of the Interior |
| DTRA | Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
| EID | emerging infectious disease |
| ELISA | enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay |
| ENSO | El Niño-Southern Oscillation |
| EUS | epizootic ulcerative syndrome |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| FWS | Fish and Wildlife Service |
| GAA | Global Amphibian Assessment |
| GAO | Government Accountability Office |
| GHI | Global Health Initiative |
| GOARN | Global Outbreak and Response Network |
| GPHIN | Global Public Health Intelligence Network |
| GPM | Gaussian plume model |
| GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
| GRC-YR | Global Reference Center for yellow rust |
| GRRC | Global Rust Reference Center |
| HIV/AIDS | human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| ICARDA | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas |
| ICRISAT | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics |
| IHR | International Health Regulations |
| IOM | Institute of Medicine |
| IRIS | immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome |
| IRRI | International Rice Research Institute |
| ITS | internal transcribed spacer |
| IUCN | International Union for the Conservation of Nature |
| MIC | minimum inhibitory concentration |
| MLST | multilocus sequencing typing |
| NAS | National Academy of Sciences |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NGO | non-governmental organization |
| NIAID | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NLM | National Library of Medicine |
| NOAA | National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NWHC | National Wildlife Health Center |
| OIE | World Organisation for Animal Health |
| OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| PAMP | pathogen-associated molecular pattern |
| PCR | polymerase chain reaction |
| PNW | Pacific Northwest |
| ProMED | Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases |
| RACE | Risk Assessment of Chytridiomycosis to European Amphibian Diversity |
| RVF | Rift Valley fever |
| SCBI | Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute |
| SCLB | Southern corn leaf blight |
| SOD | sudden oak death |
| SSC | Species Survival Commission |
| TB | tuberculosis |
| TGen | Translational Genomics Research Institute |
| U.K. | United Kingdom |
| U.N. | United Nations |
| USAID | U.S. Agency for International Development |
| USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WNS | white-nose syndrome |
| WTO | World Trade Organization |
