| BCA | Bicinchonic acid |
| BRIG | BLAST ring image generator |
| CFU | Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide |
| CTAB | Crystal violet |
| CV | Dimethyl sulfoxide |
| DNase I | Deoxyribonuclease |
| DTT | Dithiothreitol |
| EHEC | Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli |
| EM | Emmision |
| EPEC | Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli |
| ESP | Eschrichia coli secretion protein |
| EXC | Excitation |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| FU | Fluorescence units |
| HPLC | High-performance liquid chromatography |
| LA | Luria-Bertani agar |
| LB | Luria-Bertani broth |
| LIN | Linezolid |
| MS | Mass spectrometry |
| M.O.I. | Multiplicity of infection |
| NCBI | National center for biotechnology information |
| NGS | Next generation sequencing |
| OD | Optical density |
| ORF | Open reading frame |
| PBS | Phosphate-buffered saline |
| PFU | Plaque forming units |
| RNaseA | Ribonuclease A |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| Stx | Shiga toxin |
| TEM | Transmission electron microscopy |
| TFA | Trifluoroacetic acid |
| TerL | Large subunit of terminase |
| TM | Tris-Magnesium sulfate buffer |
| TSA | Tryptic soy agar |
| TSB | Tryptic soy broth |
| VFDB | Virulence Factors of the Pathogenic Bacteria database |