The Science and Applications of Microbial Genomics: Workshop Summary (2013)

Chapter: Appendix C--Acronyms

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Appendix C


Acronyms

AEEC

attaching and effacing Escherichia coli

AFMIC

Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

ATCC

American Type Culture Collection

Bd

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

BFP

bundle-forming pili

BLAST

basic local alignment search tool

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CLIA

clinical laboratory improvement amendment

COG

cluster of orthologous groups of proteins

DEC

diarrheagenic Escherichia coli

DHS

Department of Homeland Security

DNA

deoxyribonucleic acid

DOD

Department of Defense

DOJ

Department of Justice

DRISEE

duplicate read inferred sequencing error estimation

DTRA

Defense Threat Reduction Agency

EAEC

enteroaggregative Escherichia coli

EHEC

enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

EID

emerging infectious disease

EIEC

enteroinvasive Escherichia coli
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EPEC

enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

ESS

Environmental Shotgun Sequencing

ETEC

enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

FDA

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

GEBA

Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea

GBS

Group B streptococcus

HAART

highly active antiretroviral therapy

HAI

hospital-acquired infection

HGT

horizontal gene transfer

HHS

Department of Health and Human Services

HIV

human immunodeficiency virus

IOM

Institute of Medicine

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

KEGG

Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes

LEE

locus of enterocyte effacement

MIRU

mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit

MLST

multi-locus sequence typing

MRSA

methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

NGS

next-generation sequencing

ORF

open reading frame

OTU

operational taxonomic unit

PAUP

phylogenetic analysis using parsimony

PCoA

principal coordinates analysis

PCR

polymerase chain reaction

RNA

ribonucleic acid

rRNA

ribosomal RNA

SNP

single nucleotide polymorphisms

STEC

shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli
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TB

tuberculosis

TIGR

The Institute for Genomic Research

USAMRIID

U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

USDA

U.S. Department of Agriculture

VNTR

variable number tandem repeat
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