Abbreviations	Full
AST	antimicrobial susceptibility testing
CA	community-acquired; CAMERA
CAMERA	combination antibiotic therapy for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (clinical trial)
CAP	community-acquired pneumonia
CC	clonal complex
CDC	US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
cgMLST	core genome multi-locus sequence typing
CLSI	Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
CoNS	coagulase-negative Staphylococcus
CO-MRSA	community-onset MRSA
CRISPR/Cas9	lustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR associated protein 9
CYP	cytochrome P450
DHFR	dihydrofolate-reductase
ESBL	extended-spectrum β-lactamase
ESCMID	European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
EU	European Union
EUCAST	European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
FDA	US Food and Drug Administration
HA	hospital-associated
HAP	hospital-acquired pneumonia
hVISA	heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus
HLA	human leukocyte antigen
IAI	intra-abdominal infection
LA	livestock-associated
MALDI-TOF MS	matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry
MAO-A	monoamine-oxidase-A
MFS	major facilitator superfamily
MDR	multidrug-resistant
MIC	minimal inhibitory concentration
MLST	multi-locus sequence typing
MRSA	methicillin/oxacillin-resistant S. aureus
NGS	next-generation sequencing
NP	nanoparticle
OPAT	outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy
PFGE	pulse-field gel electrophoresis
PBP	penicillin-binding protein
QS	quorum sensing
UTI	urinary tract infection
PDI	prosthetic device infection
PCR	polymerase chain reaction
PVL	Panton–Valentine leucocidin
QRDR	quinolone resistance-determining region
QTc	corrected QT-interval
RNA	ribonucleic acid
RNAi	RNA-interference
SCV	small-colony variant
SMX/TMP	co-trimoxazole
SSTI	skin and soft tissue infection
ST	sequence type
ssDNA	single-strand DNA
ssRNA	single-strand RNA
TDM	therapeutic drug monitoring
TAT	turnaround time
TLR	toll-like receptor
TSS	toxic shock syndrome
TSST	toxic shock syndrome toxin
UTI	urinary tract infection
VAP	ventilator-associated pneumonia
VISA	vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus
VNTR	variable number tandem repeat
VRE	vancomycin-resistant enterococci
VRSA	vancomycin-resistant S. aureus
WGS	whole-genome sequencing