ATCC	American Type Culture Collection
CDC	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CHCA	Alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid
CIM	Carbapenem Inactivation Method
CLSI	Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
CRAB	Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
ECDC	European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
ESBL	Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases
ESKAPE	Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter spp.
EUCAST	European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
FDA	Food and Drug Administration
GES	Guiana Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase
IDSA	Infectious Diseases Society of America
IMP	Imipenemase
KORLD	National Reference Centre for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
KPC	Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase
LPS	Lipopolysaccharide
MALDI-TOF MS	Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
MBL	Metallo-β-Lactamase
MDR	Multidrug-Resistant
MIC	Minimum Inhibitory Concentration
NDM	New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase
NSBL	Narrow-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases
OMV	Outer Membrane Vesicles
OXA	Oxacillinases
PBP	Penicillin-Binding Proteins
PER	Pseudomonas Extended-Resistance β-Lactamase
PDR	Pandrug-Resistant
PSE	Pseudomonas-Specific Enzyme
RND	Resistance-Nodulation-Division
SIM	Seoul Imipenemase
VAP	Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
VEB	Vietnamese Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase
VIM	Verona Integron-Encoded Metallo-β-Lactamase
WHO	World Health Organization
XDR	Extensively Drug-Resistant