| AacCas12b | Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris Cas12b |
| aM | Attomolar |
| App | Application |
| ATP | Adenosine Triphosphate |
| BIP | Backward Inner Primer |
| BOP | Backward Outer Primer |
| BrCas12b | Brevibacillus sp. Cas12b |
| Bsu | Bacillus subtilis |
| Cas | CRISPR-Associated |
| CCHF | Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus |
| cDNA | Complementary DNA |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats |
| crRNA | CRISPR RNA |
| CRISPRET | CRISPR-Based Rapid and Efficient Test |
| DENV | Dengue Virus |
| DETECTR | DNA Endonuclease-targeted CRISPR Trans Reporter |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| dsDNA | Double-Stranded DNA |
| EBOV | Ebola Virus |
| ELISA | Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays |
| ERASE | Easy-Readout and Sensitive-Enhanced |
| EXPAR | Exponential Amplification Reaction |
| FIP | Forward Inner Primer |
| fM | Femtomolar |
| FOP | Forward Outer Primer |
| gRNA | Guide RNA |
| HDA | Helicase Dependent Amplification |
| HOLMES | One Hour Low-Cost Multipurpose Highly Efficient System |
| HPV | Human Papillomavirus |
| HUDSON | Heating Unextracted Diagnostic Samples to Obliterate Nucleases |
| LAMP | Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification |
| LASV | Lassa Virus |
| Lift-CM | Lift-Heater Centrifugal Microfluidic Platform |
| Loop B | Loop Backward |
| Loop F | Loop Forward |
| MARV | Marburg virus |
| mLAMP | Multiplexing LAMP |
| MRSA | Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus |
| NASBA | Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification |
| PAM | Protospacer Adjacent Motif |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| POC | Point of Care |
| POCT | POC Test |
| RAA | Recombinase Aided Amplification |
| REASSURED | Real-time Connectivity, Ease of Specimen Collection, Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid and Robust, Equipment-Free and Environmentally Friendly, and Deliverable to End-Users |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid |
| RPA | Recombinase Polymerase Amplification |
| RT-LAMP | Reverse-Transcription LAMP |
| RT-qPCR | Quantitative Reverse-Transcription PCR |
| RT-RAA | Reverse-Transcription RAA |
| RT-RPA | Reverse-Transcription RPA |
| RVFV | Rift Valley Fever Virus |
| SARS-CoV-2 | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 |
| SDA | Strand Displacement Amplification |
| SEC-disc | Spatially Encoded Centrifugal Disc |
| SHERLOCK | Specific High-Sensitivity Enzymatic Reporter UnLOCKing |
| SNP | Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms |
| ssDNA | Single-Stranded DNA |
| STOP | SHERLOCK Testing in One-Pot |
| TCEP-EDTA | Tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine hydrochloride–Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid |
| tracrRNA | trans-Activating crRNA |
| VHF | Viral Hemorrhagic Fever |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| ZIKV | Zika Virus |