| AMR | antimicrobial resistance |
| AP-PCR | arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction |
| AST | antimicrobial susceptibility testing |
| BMD | broth microdilution |
| BSI | bloodstream infection |
| CI | confidence interval |
| CLSI | Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute |
| COLr-CPE | colistin-resistant carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales |
| CRAB | carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii |
| CR-GNB | carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria |
| CRKP | carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae |
| DTA | diagnostic test accuracy |
| ESBL | extended-spectrum beta-lactamase |
| EUCAST | European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing |
| HR | hazard ratio |
| ICU | intensive care unit |
| JBI | Joanna Briggs Institute |
| KPC | Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase |
| MIC | minimum inhibitory concentration |
| MLST | multilocus sequence typing |
| MMAT | Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool |
| OR | odds ratio |
| PAP | population analysis profiling |
| PFGE | pulsed-field gel electrophoresis |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| QUADAS-3 | Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies, version 3 |
| ROBINS-E | Risk Of Bias In Non-randomised Studies—of Exposure |
| VAP | ventilator-associated pneumonia |
| WGS | whole-genome sequencing |
| XDR | extensively drug-resistant |