A-PBA | Asia-Pacific Biosafety Organization | |
AAHL | Australian Animal Health Laboratory | |
ABSA | American Biological Safety Association | |
ABSL | Animal biosafety level | |
ACH | Air changes per hour | |
AFB | Acid-fast bacillus | |
AfBSA | African Biological Safety Organization | |
AI | Avian influenza | |
AIDS | Acquired immune deficiency syndrome | |
ANBio | Brazilian Biosafety Association | |
AusAID | Australian Government Overseas Aid Program | |
BATA | Biological Agents and Toxins Act (Singapore) | |
BD | Border disease | |
BEN | Biocontainment Engineering Network (IFBA) | |
BEP | Biosecurity Engagement Program (United States) | |
BLWG | Biological Laboratory Working Group (Canada/Kyrgyz Republic) | |
BMBL | Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories | |
BSA | Biosafety association | |
BSC | Biological safety cabinet | |
BSL | Biosafety level | |
BTRP | Biological Threat Reduction Program | |
BVD | Bovine viral diarrhoea | |
BWC | Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention | |
CAREC | Caribbean Epidemiology Centre | |
CCHF | Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever | |
CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States) | |
CEN | European Committee for Standardization | |
CIRMF | International Centre of Medical Research of Franceville | |
CMLF | Caribbean Med Labs Foundation | |
COMSTECH | Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (Pakistan) | |
CPA | Mexico-US Commission for the Prevention of Foot and Mouth Disease and Other Exotic Animal Diseases | |
CPHRL | Central Public Health Reference Laboratory (Republic of Georgia) | |
CTR | Cooperative Threat Reduction | |
CWA | CEN Workshop Agreement | |
DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | |
DTRA | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | |
EDPLN | Emerging and Dangerous Pathogens Laboratory Network | |
ELISA | Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay | |
EHEC | Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli | |
EU | European Union |
FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation (United States) | |
FMD | Foot and mouth disease | |
FTA | Flinders Technology Associates | |
GAO | Government Accountability Office (United States) | |
GOARN | Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network | |
GLI | Global Laboratory Initiative | |
GMO | Genetically modified organism | |
GMP | Good manufacturing practice | |
HEPA | High-efficiency particulate air | |
HFRS | Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome | |
HIV | Human immunodeficiency virus | |
HPAI | Highly pathogenic avian influenza | |
HSADL | High Security Animal Disease Laboratory | |
HUS | Haemolytic uraemic syndrome | |
HVAC | Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning | |
IAP | InterAcademy Panel on International Issues | |
IAP BWG | InterAcademy Panel on International Issues Biosecurity Working Group | |
IATA | International Air Transport Association | |
IBC | Institutional Biosafety Committee | |
IFBA | International Federation of Biosafety Associations | |
IHR | International Health Regulations | |
INTERPOL | International Criminal Police Organization | |
ICAO | International Civil Aviation Organization | |
ICLS | International Council of Life Sciences | |
IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission | |
IFA | Immunofluorescence assays | |
IgM | Immunoglobulin M | |
IPM | Institut Pasteur du Maroc | |
IPPC | International Plant Protection Convention | |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization | |
IVI | International Vaccine Institute | |
JICA | Japan International Cooperation Agency | |
KCDC | Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention | |
LAI | Laboratory-acquired infection or laboratory-associated infection | |
LANL | Los Alamos National Lab | |
LBM | Laboratory Biosafety Manual | |
LPAI | Low pathogenic avian influenza | |
LRN | Laboratory Response Network | |
MAC | Medical Advisory Committee (Australia, AAHL) | |
MARA | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Turkey) | |
MDR-TB | Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis | |
MORU | Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit |
NGO | Non-governmental organization | |
NIAID | National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (United States) | |
NIH | National Institutes of Health (United States) | |
NIHRD | National Institute of Health Research and Development (Indonesia) | |
NIID | National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Japan) | |
NRC | National Research Council (United States) | |
OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | |
OIE | World Organisation for Animal Health | |
OIE CC | World Organisation for Animal Health Collaborating Center | |
OIE RL | World Organisation for Animal Health Reference Laboratory | |
OUCRU-HCM | Oxford University Clinical Research Unit—Ho Chi Minh City | |
PCR | Polymerase chain reaction | |
POC | Point-of-care | |
PPE | Personal protective equipment | |
RKI | Robert Koch Institute | |
RT-PCR | Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction | |
SAPO | Specified Animal Pathogens Order (U.K.) | |
SARS | Severe acute respiratory syndrome | |
SEAICRN | Southeast Asian Clinical Infectious Diseases Network | |
SIV | Simian immunodeficiency virus | |
SNL | Sandia National Laboratories | |
SOP | Standard operating procedure | |
TB | Tuberculosis | |
TÜBA | Turkish Academy of Sciences | |
UNAS | Uganda National Academy of Science | |
UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization | |
VSVRI | Veterinary Serum and Vaccine Research Institute | |
WHO | World Health Organization | |
XDR | Extremely drug resistant |
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