CF	Cystic fibrosis
PwCF	People with cystic fibrosis
CFTR	Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic acid
MALDI-TOF-MS	Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
LB	Lysogeny broth
OD	Optical Density
NCBI SRA	National Center for Biotechnology Information Sequence Read Archive
ANI	Average nucleotide identity
MLST	Multilocus Sequence Typing
ICE	Integrative and conjugative element
IME	Integrative and mobilizable element
IS	Insertion sequence
VRNG1	Verona non-affiliated genogroup 1
SNP	Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism
Ts/Tv	Transition–Transvertion Ratio
AK	Aspartate Kinase
ATP	Adenosine Triphosphate