Abbreviation |
Term |
ARV |
Anti-retroviral |
CAP |
Community Acquired Pneumonia |
CNDSS |
Canadian Notifiable Disease Surveillance System |
GMC |
Geometric mean concentration |
GMT |
Geometric mean titer |
HAART |
Highly active antiretroviral therapy |
HSCT |
Hematopoietic stem cell transplant |
IM |
Intramuscular |
IPD |
Invasive pneumococcal disease |
LSPQ |
Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec |
MMF |
Mycophenolate mofetil |
NML |
National Microbiology Laboratory |
OPA |
Opsophanocytic activity |
PNEU-C-13 |
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine – 13-valent |
PNEU-P-23 |
Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine – 23-valent |
RCT |
Randomized controlled trial |
SOT |
Solid organ transplant |
TIBDN |
Toronto Invasive Bacterial Disease Network |
TIV |
Trivalent influenza vaccine |
VE |
Vaccine effectiveness |