Medical Microbiology

DHF: denguehemorrhagic

fever

DHPG: dihydroxypropoxy-

methylguanine

Dvaccine:

diphtheriatoxoidvaccine

DNA: deoxyribonucleicacid

DNP: dinitrophenol

DR: directrepeats

ds: double-strandednucleic

acid

DSS: dengueshocksyndrome

DTH: delayedtypehypersensi-

tivity

DtxR: diphtheriatoxinrepressor

&EA: earlyantigen
EAE: experimentalallergic
encephalitis
EAF: EPECadhesionfactor
EaggEC: enteroaggregative
Escherichiacoli
EB: elementarybody
EBNA: Epstein-Barrnuclear
antigen
EBV: Epstein-Barrvirus
EDTA: ethylenediaminetetra-
aceticacid
eEF2: eucaryoticelongation
factor 2
EF: edemafactorinspotted
fevers
EHEC: enterohemorrhagic
E.coli
EIA: enzymeimmunoassay
EIEC: enteroinvasiveE.coli
EITB: enzyme-linkedimmuno-
electrotransferblot
ELISA: enzyme-linkedimmuno-
sorbentassay
EM: electronmicroscopy
EMB: ethambutol
EMCV: encephalomyocarditis

virus

EPEC: enteropathogenic

E.coli

EPS: extracellularpolymer

substance

ETEC: enterotoxicE.coli

EU: EuropeanUnion

&Ffactor: fertilityfactor

FA: Freund’sadjuvant

FACS: fluorescence-activated

cellsorter

Fas: Fantigen

FcR: Fcreceptor

FDC: folliculardendriticcell

FHA: filamentoushemagglutin

FITC: fluoresceinisothiocyanate

FTA-ABS:fluorescenttreponemal

antibodyabsorptiontest

&G6PDD: glucose-6-phosphate

dehydrogenasedeficiency

GAE: granulomatousamebic

encephalitis

gag: group-specificantigen

GALT: gut-associatedlymphoid

tissue

GC: guanine-cytosine/gas

chromatography

GM-CSF: granulocyte-macrophage

colony-stimulatingfactor

GP: glycoprotein

GSS: Gerstmann-Stra ̈ussler-

Scheinker(syndrome)

GVH: graft-versus-host(reaction)

&H: heavychain

HACEK: Haemophilus, Actinoba-

cillus,Cardiobacterium,

Eikenella,Kingella

HAT: hypoxanthine,

aminopterin,thymidine

Hb: hemoglobin

VIII Abbreviations

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