AMR	Antimicrobial Resistance
AI	Artificial Intelligence
BTM	Bulk Tank Milk
CFU/mL	Colony Forming Units per Milliliter
CMT	California Mastitis Test
CM	Clinical Mastitis
CNN	Convolutional Neural Network
DCT	Dry Cow Therapy
EF-Tu	Elongation Factor Thermo-unstable
ELISA	Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
IRT	Infrared Thermography
ITS	Internal Teat Sealant
LFD	Lateral Flow Dipstick
LFIA	Lateral Flow Immunoassay
MALDI-TOF MS	Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
MDR	Multidrug Resistance
MRSA	Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
MSCRAMMs	Microbial Surface Components Recognizing Adhesive Matrix Molecules
MSSA	Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
NAS	Non-aureus Staphylococci
PCR	Polymerase Chain Reaction
PIA	Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin
qPCR	Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction
RAA	Recombinase-Aided Amplification
RF	Random Forest (Machine Learning Algorithm)
SCC	Somatic Cell Count
SCCmec	Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec
SDCT	Selective Dry Cow Therapy
SHAP	SHapley Additive exPlanations (Explainable AI Technique)
SNP	Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
ST	Sequence Type (used in molecular typing)
TSST-1	Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1
WGS	Whole-Genome Sequencing
XAI	Explainable Artificial Intelligence
XGBoost	Extreme Gradient Boosting (Machine Learning Algorithm)