Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges—Finding Solutions: Workshop Summary (2007)
Chapter: Appendix B Acronyms
Appendix B
Acronyms
ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
APHIS Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
ARIMA autoregressive moving average
ARS Agricultural Research Service
BDV Borna disease virus
BLAST Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
BSN Basic Surveillance Network
CBP Customs and Border Protection
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
cDNA complementary DNA
CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research
cPCR consensus polymerase chain reaction
CRP Critical Reagents Program
CSREES Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
DD differential display
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DoD Department of Defense
DOHMH Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (New York City)
DoI Department of the Interior
DoS Department of State
DOTS directly observed therapy shortcourse
DSDD domain-specific differential display
DSN disease surveillance network
ECDC European Center for Disease Control
ECL electrochemiluminescence
ED emergency department
EDR Emerging Disease Reports
EFSA European Food and Safety Authority
EISS European Influenza Surveillance Scheme
EMEA European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products
END exotic Newcastle disease
ER emergency room
ESSENCE Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics
EU European Union
EWGLI European Working Group for Legionella Infections
EWRS Early Warning Response System
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAS Federation of American Scientists
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FIND Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
FMD foot-and-mouth disease
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GAINS Global Avian Influenza Network for Surveillance
GAO Government Accountability Office
GEIS Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System
GIS Geographic Information System
GLEWS Global Early Warning and Response System
GOARN Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
GPHIN Global Public Health Intelligence Network
GreenVrdB Greene Viral Database
HCV hepatitis C virus
HHA hand-held assay
HHS Department of Health and Human Services
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIV human immunodeficiency virus
HL-7 Health Level Seven
HMM Hidden Markov Models
HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive
ICD International Classification of Diseases
ICTV International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
ICTVdB International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses Database
ICU intensive care unit
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IHR International Health Regulation
ILI influenza-like illness
INSTEDD International System for Total Early Disease Detection
IOM Institute of Medicine
IPM Integrated Pest Management
ISID International Society for Infectious Diseases
IT information technology
ITU International Telecommunications Union
JBAIDS Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System
LEADERS Lightweight Epidemiological Advanced Detection Emergency Response System
LOD limit of detection
MedISys Medical Intelligence System
MHC major histocompatibility complex
MoH Ministry of Health
mRNA messenger RNA
MS messaging system
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information
NGO nongovernmental organization
NIAID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
NIH National Institutes of Health
NINDS National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
NLS National Laboratory System
NMRCD Naval Medical Research Center Detachment
NPDN National Plant Diagnostic Network
NPDRS National Plant Disease Recovery System
NRC National Research Council
NRDM National Retail Data Monitor
OIE World Organization for Animal Health
OIG Office of the Inspector General
PCR polymerase chain reaction
PDA personal digital assistant
Pfam Protein families database of alignments
PHIN Public Health Information Network
PMM ProMED-mail
ProMED Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases
RDA representational difference analysis
RDP Ribosomal Database Project
RDT rapid diagnostic test
RFI request for information
RODS Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance System
RSS Really Simple Syndication
RSVP Rapid Syndrome Validation Project
RT-PCR reverse transcriptase–PCR
SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome
SD standard deviation
SLEV St. Louis encephalitis virus
SMS short message service
SNOMED Standardized Nomenclature for Medicine
SNOVET Standardized Nomenclature for Veterinary Medicine
SNVDO Standardized Nomenclature for Veterinary Diagnoses and Operations
SPC statistical process control
SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
SYRIS Syndromic Reporting Information System
TaxID Taxonomy identification
TB tuberculosis
TED Technology, Entertainment, and Design
TPA tripropylamine
TRF time-resolved fluorescence
USAID U.S. Agency for International Development
USAMRIID U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USPS U.S. Postal Service
VPN virtual private network
