AST	antimicrobic susceptibility testing
ATCC	American type culture collection
ATU	area of technical uncertainty
BAL	broncho-alveolar lavage
CA	categorical agreement
CRAB	carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
DD	disk diffusion
DDT-PA	difficult-to-treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa
EA	essential agreement
EUCAST	European committee on antimicrobial susceptibility testing
FDA	food and drug administration
FDC	cefiderocol
ID-BMD	broth microdilution in iron-depleted cation-adjusted Mueller Hinton broth
IMP	imipenemase
KPC	Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase
MALDI-TOF	matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight
MDR	multi-drug-resistant
ME	major error
MIC	minimum inhibitory concentration
MTS	MIC test strip
NDM	New-Delhi metallo-β-lactamase
PK/PD	pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic
VIM	Verona integron–encoded metallo-β-lactamase
VME	very major error