| ARGs | antibiotic resistance genes |
| LPS | lipopolysaccharides |
| PG | peptidoglycan |
| STEC | Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli |
| HUS | hemolytic-uremic syndrome |
| IBD | inflammatory bowel disease |
| Zot | Zonula occludens toxins |
| BSIs | bloodstream infections |
| CRISPR-Cas | clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeats-CRISPR-associated proteins |
| SaPI1 | Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity island-1 |
| VG | virulent gene |
| APEC | avian pathogenic E. coli |
| OMV | outer membrane vesicles |
| ESKAPE pathogens | Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp. |
| eDNA | extracellular DNA |