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EuroPneumo Special Issue / <strong>pneumonia</strong> 2015 Oct 21;7:I–72<br />

<strong>pneumonia</strong><br />

Commonly used Abbreviations and Acronyms<br />

BALF<br />

BLAST<br />

CFU<br />

CI<br />

COPD<br />

CPS<br />

CSF<br />

CST<br />

EMSA<br />

ICP-MS<br />

ICU<br />

IPD<br />

KC<br />

MALDI-TOF<br />

MALDI-TOF/MS<br />

MDM<br />

MIC<br />

MLSA<br />

MLST<br />

MOI<br />

MST<br />

PCR<br />

PCV<br />

PCV7<br />

PCV10<br />

PCV13<br />

qPCR<br />

qRT-PCR<br />

ROS<br />

RT-PCR<br />

SMC<br />

SNP<br />

ST<br />

TCS<br />

VT<br />

WGS<br />

WHO<br />

WT<br />

Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid<br />

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool<br />

Colony forming units<br />

Confidence interval<br />

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease<br />

Capsule polysaccharide synthesis<br />

Cerebrospinal fluid<br />

Capsule sequence typing<br />

Electrophoretic mobility shift assay<br />

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy<br />

Intensive care unit<br />

Invasive pneumococcal disease<br />

Killer cells<br />

Matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation – time-of-flight<br />

Matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation – time-of-flight/mass spectrometry<br />

Monocyte derived macrophages<br />

Minimum inhibitory concentrations<br />

Multi-locus sequence analysis<br />

Multi-locus sequence typing<br />

Multiplicity of infection<br />

Microscale thermophoresis<br />

Polymerase chain reaction<br />

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine<br />

7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine<br />

10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine<br />

13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine<br />

Quantitative polymerase chain reaction<br />

Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction<br />

Reductive oxygen species<br />

Real-time polymerase chain reaction<br />

Small marker chromosome<br />

Single nucleotide polymorphisms<br />

Sequence type<br />

Two-component regulatory systems<br />

Vaccine type<br />

Whole genome sequence<br />

World Health Organization<br />

Wild type<br />

<strong>pneumonia</strong> 2015 Volume 7<br />

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