3rd generation cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacterales

Acid-fast bacillus

Acute Gastroenteritis

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US Dept. of Health & Human Services)

Artificial intelligence (‘cognitive computing’ , e.g. machine learning via neural networks)

Alliance for Infection Management

Alanine aminotransferase

Antimicrobial Advice Ad Hoc Expert Group

Antimicrobial Resistance

A hospital antibiogram is a periodic summary of antimicrobial susceptibilities of local bacterial isolates submitted to the hospital’s clinical microbiology laboratory. Often used by clinicians to assess local susceptibility rates, as an aid in selecting empiric antibiotic therapy, and in monitoring resistance trends over time within an institution

Acute pyelonephritis

Association for professionals in infection control and epidemiology

Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Tufts University, USA)

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Antibiotic Centre for Primary Care

AST is an acronym that stands for two different terms, depending on the context. In a microbiology and clinical setting, it most commonly refers to Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, a laboratory method used to determine which antibiotics will be effective in treating a specific bacterial infection. However, in general medicine, AST can also refer to Aspartate transaminase, an enzyme whose levels are measured in a blood test to assess liver function and health.

Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical

Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical veterinary

Area of technical uncertainty

Area under concentration–time curve

Access, watch, reserve

Bedaquiline

β-lactamase inhibitor

Bacterial priority pathogen

Bacterial pathogens priority list

Bloodstream infection

Business Unit Managements

Community-acquired bacterial pneumonia

Community acquired pneumonia

Combating Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator

Certification commission for healthcare information technology, USA

Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Clostridioides difficile infection

Clinical decision support systems

Center for Digital Forvaltning

Cystic fibrosis

Colony-forming unit

Core genome multilocus sequence typing

Confidence interval

Complicated intra-abdominal infection

Mean maximum concentration

Coagulase-negative staphylococci

Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales

A Causal Probabilistic Network (also known as a Bayesian Network) is a graphical model that represents a set of variables and their probabilistic relationships. It is used to model and reason about cause-and-effect relationships under uncertainty, and can be applied in various fields, including medical decision support systems.

Carbapenemase-producing organisms

Computerized physician (/provider) order entry system

Critical priority pathogen

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales

Carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae