Abbreviation
|
Full Name of Term
|
AMR |
antimicrobial resistance |
CDI |
Clostridioides difficile infection |
CRISPR |
clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeat |
CTn |
conjugative transposon
|
DNA |
deoxyribonucleic acid |
ECE |
extra-chromosomal element |
GTP |
guanosine triphosphate |
ICE |
integrative and conjugative elements |
IS |
insertion sequence |
MGE |
mobile genetic element |
MLSB |
macrolide-lincosamide and streptogramin B |
MTn |
multi-purpose transposon |
PCR |
polymerase chain reaction |
PMN |
polymorphonuclear neutrophils |
RNA |
ribonucleic acid |
Tn |
transposon |
TndX |
conjugative transposon site-specific recombinase |
WGS |
whole-genome sequencing |