| WGS | Whole-Genome Sequencing |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| IZSLT | Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale di Lazio e Toscana |
| UOT | Territorial Operative Unit |
| BPW | Buffered Peptone Water |
| MSRV | Semi-solid Rappaport-Vassiliadis Agar |
| XLD | Xylose-Lysine-Desoxycholate Agar |
| CRRLm | Regional Reference Center for Listeria monocytogenes |
| CREP | Regional Reference Center |
| AST | Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing |
| NRL-AR | National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance |
| MIC | Minimum Inhibitory Concentration |
| SRA | Sequence Read Archive |
| cgMLST | Core genome Multilocus Sequence Typing |
| MLST | Multilocus Sequence Typing |
| SPIs | Salmonella Pathogenicity Islands |
| CGE | Center for Genomic Epidemiology |
| VF | Virulence factors |
| AMR | Antimicrobial resistance |
| ST | Sequence Type |
| CC | Clonal complex |
| cgST | Core genome sequence type |
| MST | Minimum spanning tree |
| NCPs | National Control Programmes |
| ENTER-NET | Enteric Pathogen Network |
| MDR | Multidrug resistance |