AI	artificial intelligence
BYOL	bootstrap your own latent (self-supervised learning method)
CATT	card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis
CBIR	content-based image retrieval
CE-IVD	Conformité Européenne—In Vitro Diagnostic
cox3	cytochrome c oxidase subunit III gene
CRISPR	clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
ddPCR	droplet digital PCR
DAT	direct agglutination test
DIVA	Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated Animals
DNA	deoxyribonucleic acid
DTU	discrete typing unit
ELISA	enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
EMPRES-i+	Emergency Prevention System for Animal Health Global Information System
ERA-Cas12a	extension of recombinase-aided amplification coupled with CRISPR-Cas12a detection
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FDA	U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FIND	Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
HAT	human African trypanosomiasis
IFAT	indirect fluorescence antibody test
ITS	internal transcribed spacer
kDNA	kinetoplast DNA
KNN	k-nearest neighbours
LAMP	loop-mediated isothermal amplification
LDT	laboratory-developed test
mAECT	miniature anion-exchange centrifugation technique
ML	machine learning
MPSP	major piroplasm surface protein
mRNA	messenger RNA
nad5	NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5 gene
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information
nMLST	nuclear multilocus sequence typing
nUPDx	nested universal parasite diagnostic assay
PAAT	Programme Against African Trypanosomosis
PAHO	Pan American Health Organization
PCR	polymerase chain reaction
POC	point of care
QBC	quantitative buffy coat
qPCR	quantitative PCR
rDNA	ribosomal DNA
RDT	rapid diagnostic test
RNA	ribonucleic acid
RUO	Research Use Only
RPA	recombinase polymerase amplification
rRNA	ribosomal RNA
SAR	Stramenopiles–Alveolates–Rhizaria (a major eukaryotic supergroup)
SSL	self-supervised learning
SSU	small subunit (ribosomal RNA)
SYBR	SYBR Green intercalating fluorescent dye
VEuMAP	VEuPathDB map (eukaryotic pathogen epidemiological and population-level data platform)
WAHIS	World Animal Health Information System
WHO	World Health Organization
WOAH	World Organisation for Animal Health