| BPh | Bacteriophage |
| BPhT | Bacteriophage therapy |
| QS | Quorum sensing |
| QSI | Quorum sensing inhibitor |
| VREF | Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium |
| PFU | Plaque-forming units |
| CFU | Colony-forming units |
| MRSA | Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus |
| HGT | Horizontal gene transfer |
| EPS | Exopolysaccharides |
| MOI | Multiplicity of infection |
| MIC | Minimal inhibitory concentration |
| PAS | Phage–antibiotic synergy |
| UTI | Urinary tract infection |
| CF | Cystic fibrosis |
| CRISPR | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |