| CLSI | Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| ECDC | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control |
| EUCAST | European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing |
| Euro-GASP | European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme |
| MIC | minimum inhibitory concentration |
| MLST | multi-locus sequence typing |
| NG-MAST | Neisseria gonorrhoeae multi-antigen sequence typing |
| NG-STAR | Neisseria gonorrhoeae sequence typing for antimicrobial resistance |
| PBP | penicillin-binding protein |
| ST | sequence type |
| WGS | whole-genome sequencing |