AAD	antibiotic associated diarrhoea
ABC	ATP-binding cassette
AGNB	anaerobic Gram-negative bacilli
AIDS	acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
AMX/CLA	amoxicillin-clavulanic acid
AMP/SUL	ampicillin-sulbactam
ASA	Anaerobe Society of the Americas
AST	antimicrobial susceptibility testing
ATP	adenosine-triphosphate
BBA	Brucella blood agar
BBE	Bacteroides bile esculin agar
BfPAI	Bacteroides fragilis pathogenicity island
BL-BLIC	beta-lactam-beta-lactamase inhibitor combination
BSAC	British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
BV	bacterial vaginosis
Caco-2	Human epithelial colorectal adenocarcinoma
CCFA	Cefoxitin-cycloserine fructose agar
CNA	Colistin-nalidixic acid agar
CIDT	culture-independent diagnostic testing
CIP	ciprofloxacin
CLI	clindamycin
CLSI	Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
DIN	Deutsches Institut für Normung
DNA	deoxyribonucleic acid
EBV	Epstein-Barr virus
EDTA	ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
EPI	efflux pump inhibitor
EMA	European Medicines Agency
ENRIA	European Network for Rapid Identification of Anaerobes
ESGAI	ESCMID Study Group for Anaerobic Infections
ETBF	enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis
EUCAST	European Committe for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
EYA	Egg-yolk agar
FDA	Food and Drug Administration of the United States
FX	cefoxitin
GLC	gas-liquid chromatography
IBS	irritable bowel syndrome
HCT-8	human ileocecal carcinoma
HGT	horizontal gene transfer
HT-29	human colon adenocarcinoma cell line
ID	identification
IS	insertion sequence
IMP	imipenem
KVLB	Kanamycin-vancomycin laked blood agar
LDH	lactate-dehydrogenase
MALDI-TOF MS	matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry
MATE	Multi-antimicrobial extrusion protein
MDCK	Madin Darby Canine Kidney cell line
MDR	multidrug resistant
MET	metronidazole
MIC	minimal inhibitory concentration
MLS	Macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B
MXF	moxifloxacin
NCLLS	National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards
PBP	penicillin-binding protein
PCR	polymerase chain reaction
PEA	Phenyletyl alcohol agar
PFOR	pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase
PID	pelvic inflammatory disease
PIP/TAZ	piperacillin-tazobactam
PRAS	pre-reduced anaerobically sterilised
QRDR	quionole resistance determining regions
RND	Resistance nodulation and division
rRNA	ribosomal ribonucleic acid
SCFA	short-chained fatty acid
SGE	spiral gradient endpoint
SOD	superoxide-dismutase
SCS	Schaedler blood agar
SPS	sodium polyanethol sulfonate
TET	tetracycline
WGS	whole-genome sequencing