- AI
autoinducer
- AMD
acid mine drainage
- BLAST
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
- BSE
bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- Bt
Bacillus thuringiensis
- CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CGEPs
cellular genes exploited by pathogens
- CISAC
Committee on International Security and Arms Control
- CPV
canine parvovirus
- CRISPR
clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat
- DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- DOE
Department of Energy
- DTRA
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- EID
emerging infectious disease
- ESCRT
endosomal sorting complexes required for transport
- EST
expressed sequence tag
- FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization
- FASEB
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
- FEMS
Federation of European Microbiological Societies
- FISH
fluorescence in situ hybridization
- FPV
feline panleukopenia virus
- GEBA
Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea
- GI
gastrointestinal
- GSV
gene search vector
- HIV
human immunodeficiency virus
- HPS
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
- HPSD-18
Homeland Security Presidential Directive-18
- HTLV
human T-cell lymphoma virus
- IDSA
Infectious Diseases Society of America
- IHR
International Health Regulations
- IOM
Institute of Medicine
- JAMA
Journal of the American Medical Association
- JID
Journal of Infectious Diseases
- LPS
lipopolysaccharide
- MAMP
microbe-associated molecular pattern
- MCP
methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein
- MDR
multidrug resistant
- MRSA
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- NAS
National Academy of Sciences
- NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NCID
National Center for Infectious Diseases
- NIAID
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- NIH
National Institutes of Health
- NiV
Nipah virus
- NLM
National Library of Medicine
- NSF
National Science Foundation
- NTS
non-typhoidal salmonellosis
- OR
odds ratio
- ORF
open reading frame
- OSTP
Office of Science and Technology Policy
- PCR
polymerase chain reaction
- PGN
peptidoglycan
- PIGT
proteomic-inferred genome typing
- ProMED
Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases
- QS
quorum sensing
- RHKO
random homozygous knockout
- RSV
Rous sarcoma virus
- SARS
severe acute respiratory syndrome
- SNP
single nucleotide polymorphism
- TB
tuberculosis
- TIGR
The Institute for Genomic Research
- VISA
vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus
- VRSA
vancomycin-resistent Staphylococcus aureus
- WHO
World Health Organization
- WNV
West Nile virus
- WWTP
wastewater treatment plant
- XDR
extensively drug resistant
Publication Details
Copyright
Publisher
National Academies Press (US), Washington (DC)
NLM Citation
Institute of Medicine (US) Forum on Microbial Threats. Microbial Evolution and Co-Adaptation: A Tribute to the Life and Scientific Legacies of Joshua Lederberg: Workshop Summary. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2009. B, Acronyms.