Abbreviations

Australian bat lyssavirus

Albendazole

Adenyl cyclase

Advisory Committee on Animal Feeding

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food

Anchoring disk

Adenosine

Animal Disease Policy Group

Alveolar echinococcosis

Attached and Effacing

Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism

Animal Health Trust

Avian influenza

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Alkaline phosphatase

Alanine transaminase

Amazonian Chagas Initiative

Adenosine monophosphate

Antimicrobial peptides

Antimicrobial resistance

Andes virus

Anonymous

Alternative oxidase

Activated partial thromboplastin

Alliance for the Prudent use of Antibiotics

Aravan virus

Alliance for Rabies Control

Anti-retrovirus therapy

African Swine Fever

Aspartate transaminase

American type culture collection

Broncho-alveolar lavage

Bayo virus

Black Creek Canal virus

Bovine ephemeral fever virus

British Empire Veterinary Association

Bursa of Fabricus

Barmah Forest virus

Baby hamster kidney cells

Big liver spleen disease

British Paediatric Surveillance Unit

Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Biosafety level

Bovine Tuberculosis

Choriollantoic membrane

Computer-aided tomography

Card agglutination test for Trypanosomosis

Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Cystic echinococcosis

Counter electrophoresis

Complement fixation

Case fatality rate

Complement Fixation Test

Colony Forming Units

Cholangio carcinoma

Choclo virus

Circulating immune complexes

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Creatine kinase

Cystic lesion

Cutaneous leishmania

Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute

Cell mediated immune

Central Nervous System

Chaperone 60

C-reactive protein

Cerebrospinal fluid

Classical Swine Fever

Computerized tomography

Common Veterinary Entry Documents

Cytidine

Disability Adjusted Life Year

Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Northern Ireland

Direct agglutination test

Diphtheria Antitoxin

Diffuse cutaneous leishmania

Diethycarbamazine

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dengue virus

Direct immunofluorescent antibody

Dihydrofolate

Defective interfering

Differential interface

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

Democratic Republic of Congo

Deoxythymidine

Dermatophyte test medium

Duvenhage virus

Drinking water safety plans

Escherichia coli

Enzootic abortion of ewes

Elementary Body

European bat lyssaviruses

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Extra corporeal membrane oxygenation

Epidemiology of Food-Borne Infections Group

European Food Safety Agency

Endo-gastroduodenoscopy

Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli

Ebola haemorrhagic fever

Enzyme immunoassay

Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay

Ellinghausen and McCullough Medium

Endospore

Entropathogenic E. coli

Eggs/gm

Endoplasmic reticulum

Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography

Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus

Extended Spectrum β-lactamase Producing Bacteria

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate

Edema Toxin

Immuno-electrotransfer blot

European Union

EU Concerted action on Lyme Borreliosis

Exospore

Flea Allergy Dermatitis

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

Fluorescent antibody test

Fluorescent antibody virus neutralization

Flea-borne Spotted Fever

US Food and Drugs Administration

Foot-and-mouth disease

Foot-and-mouth disease virus

Fast Sedimentation Method

Fluorescence Polarization Assay

False positive serological reaction

Food Standards Agency

Frut-Sommer-meningo-encephalitis

Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis

Global Burden of Disease

Global Early Warning and Response System

Guanosine monophosphate

Glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase

General paralysis of the insane

Glycophosphatidylinositol

Glutamic pyruvic transaminase

Gravity sedimentation technique

Genetic transformation methods

Haemagglutinin

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point

Human Animal Infections and Risks Surveillance Group

Health Adjusted Life Year

Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome

Human colonic tumour cells

Human diploid cell vaccine

Human Ewingii Ehrlichiosis

Human Embryonic Lung

Hendra virus

Hepatitis E virus

Halofuginone lactate

Human fetal lung

Hand, foot, and mouth disease

Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome

Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis

Human Immunodeficiency virus

Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis

Haemagglutinin

Hypervariable octameric oligonucleotide fingerprints

Health Protection Agency

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome

Human rectal tumour

Health and Safety Executive

Heat-shock protein 70

Human Herpes Simplex viruses

Haematocrit

Hantaan virus

Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome

Immunoabsorbent agglutination assay test

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

International Committee for the Taxonomy of Viruses

International certificate of vaccination or prophylaxis

Immunufluorescence assay

Indirect fluorescent antibody assay

Indirect fluorescent antibody test

Immunoglobulin G

Indirect haemagglutination test

Indirect haemagglutination assay

International Health Regulations

Infectious Intestinal Disease

Immediate hypersensitivity

Immunomagnetic Separation

Southern Cone Initiative against Chagas disease

Inkoo virus

Inositol phosphate

Initiative of the Central American countries to interrupt transmission of Chagas Disease

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome

Irkut virus

Insertion sequence

IFN stimulated response element

Intestinal scraping technique

Japanese encephalitis virus

Japanese international cooperation

Kyasanur forest disease virus

Khujand virus

First stage larva

Second stage larva

Third stage larva

Fourth stage larva

La Crosse virus

Loop mediated isothermal amplification

Laguna Negra virus

Lagos bat virus

Lactate dehydrogenase

Locus of Enterocyle Effacement

Langat virus

Luciferase immunoprecipitation assays

Louping ill virus

Lipooligosaccharide

Low pathogenicity

Larvae per g

Lipopolysaccharide

Laboratory Response Network

Lethal Toxin

Liver transplant

manubrium

M. avium Complex

Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases

Microscopic agglutination test

Marbug virus

Mebendazole

Modified Charcoal Cefoperazone Desoxycholate Agar

Mucocutaneous leishmaniosis

Madin-Darby bovine kidney

Madin-Darby canine kidney

Multi-drug Resistance

Multiple-drug-resistance protein

Menagle virus

Micro-immunofluorescence

Mouse inoculation test

Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis

Multilocus Sequence Typing

Multiple Locus Variable

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Mokola virus

Major outer membrane protein

Mycobacteria other than Tubercile bacilli

Magnetic resonance

Medical Research Council

Magnetic resonance imaging

Methicillin Resistance Staphylococcus aureus

M. tuberculosis Complex

Million years ago

Neuraminidase

NADH dehydrogenase

Nicolinamide adenine dinucleotide

National animal health monitoring system

Nuclear prelamin A recognition factor-like protein

National Association State Public Health Veterinarians

Neural cell adhesion molecule

National Center for Biotechnology Informatics

National Center for Competence – North-South

National Control programme

Newcastle Disease

Newcastle Disease Virus

Nephropathia Epidemica

National Expert Panel on New and Emerging Infections

National Health Service

Neuramindase inhibitors

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease

Nipah virus

Natural killer cells

No known vector

Newborn larvae

Nuclear localizational signal

Nuclear magnetic resonance

Non-structural

Nerve tissue based

Non-typhoidal Salmonella

Nucleus

New world screwworm

Ciprofloxacin

New York virus

Ovine enzootic abortion

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Omsk haemorrhagic fever virus

World Organization for Animal Health

Ocular larva migrans

Outer Membrane

Office of the Medical Investigator

O’Nyong Nyong virus

Open-reading frames

Oriental Spotted Fever

Official Veterinary Surgeon

Old world screwworm

post-infection

Lamellar polaroplast

Pan-American Health Organization

Pathogenicity Island

Primary amoebic meningo enchaphalitis

Periodic Acid Schiff

Purified chick embryo cell vaccine

Primary chicken kidney

Pneumocystis pneumonia

Polymerase Chain Reaction

Phosphoenolpyruvate phosphatase

Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis

Public Health Laboratory Service Study Group

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase

proteinkinase C

Post Kala-azar dermal leishmania

Phospholipase C

Public Library of Sciences

Plasma membrane

Polymorphic membrane protein

Plasmid Mediated Quinolone Resistance

Liver neighbouring organs and metastasis

Pyruvate:NADPþ oxidoreductase fused to cytochrome P450reductase domain

Powassan virus

Pathogenic polycystic

Personal protective equipment

Potentially Pathogenic Mycobacteria

Peste des Petits Ruminants

Partnership for Rabies Prevention

Pattern recognition receptors

Phage Type

Puumala virus

Posterior vacuole

Post mortem interval

Panton-Valentine Leukocidin

Parasitophorous vascular membrane

Purified vero rabies vaccine

Quality Adjusted Life Year

Quantitative buffy coal

Rapid Analysis and Detection of Animal-related Risks

Regulated upon Activation, Normal T-cell Expressed and Secreted

Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA

Reticular Body

Rose Bengal Test

Rabbit diarrheagenic E. coli

Reactive Arthritis

Repetitive Extragenic Palindramic

Rapid Fluorescent focus inhibitor test

Restriction fragment length polymorphism

Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations

Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Milk Ring Test

Ribonucleic acid

Ribonucleoprotein complex

Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance Network

Rapid rabies enzyme immunodiagnosis

Ross River virus

Russian spring-summer encephalitis

Rabies tissue culture inoculation test

Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction

Rift Valley Fever

Simian agent

Scottish Agricultural Colleges

Scientific Advisory Committee on Antibiotics Resistance

Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Severe acute respiratory syndrome – Coronavirus

Suspension concentrates

Soluble complement fixing

Severe combined immunodifficiency syndrome

Sedimentation counting techniques

Seoul virus

Southern elephant seal virus

Spotted Fever Group

Surveillance Group on Diseases and Infections in Animals

Single Intra-dermal Comparative Cervical Tuberculin

Sterile insect technique

Shiga-like Toxin

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism

Serum neutralization tests

Sin Nombre virus

Sporoplasm

Salmon pancreatic disease virus

Sanitary and phytosanitary measures

Snowshoe hare virus

Simple sequence repeats

Small subunit

Southern tick-associated illness

Shiga Toxin Producing E. coli

Swine vesicular disease virus

Type 4 secretion systems

Tahyna virus

Tick-borne encephalitis virus

Toxocara larval excretions/secretions

Tetrahydrofolate

Translocase of the inner mitochondrial membrane 17

Tioman virus

Toll-like receptors

Toll-like receptor 4

Teleman centrifugation technique

Translocase of the outer mitochondrial membrane 40

Thottapalayam virus

Trade Control and Expert Systems

Transmisible Spongiform Encephalopathies

Type III Secretion System

Tula virus

Unicystic echinococcosis

United Kingdom

UK Zoonoses, Animal Diseases and Infections Group

Upper limit of normal

Ultra low volume

United Nations

Ubiquinone

Uridine

Ultrasound

United States of America

US Environment Protection Agency

Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics

Usulu virus

Untranslated regions

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Rabbit chondrocyte cell line

Veterinary Investigation Diagnosis Analysis

Veterinary Laboratory Agency

Visceral larva migrans

Viable non-culturable

Variable Number Tandem Repeats

Vesiculotubular polaroplast

Vesicular stomatitis

Vesicular stomatitis virus

Verocytotoxin

Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157

World Animal Health Information Database

West Caucasian bat virus

Western equine encephalitis virus

World Health Organization

WHO Informal Working Group

West Nile virus

Wettable powders

World Trade Organization

Yellow fever vaccine-associated neurotropic disease

Yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease

Yellow fever virus

Years lived with a certain level of disability

Years of Life Lost

Zonula-occludens