| ADP | Adenosine Diphosphate |
| AE | Agarose Electrophoresis |
| AFB | Acid-Fast Bacilli |
| AIDS | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome |
| AMP | Adenosine Monophosphate |
| AOAC | Association of Official Analytic Chemist |
| APC | Aerobic Plate Count |
| APHA | American Public Health Association |
| ASO | "Antistreptolizin O" |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| ATP | Adenosine triphosphate |
| ATTC | American Type Culture Collection |
| BAM | Bacterial Analytical Manual |
| BCG | Bacille Calmette-Guerin |
| BCGI | 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indoxyl-β-D-glucuronide |
| BOD | Biological Oxygen Demand |
| CAMP | Christie, Atkins, Munch-Peterson |
| CASO | Casein Soy Peptone; Tryptic Soy (broth/ agar) |
| CCDA | Charcoal cefoperazone Deoxycholate Agar (Base, modified) |
| CDC | Centers For Disease Control |
| CFU | Colony Forming Unite |
| COD | Chemical Oxygen Demand |
| CT | Cefixime-Tellurite (SMAC Agar katkısı) |
| DC-18 Agar | Dicloran Glycerol Agar |
| DFA | Direct Fluorescent Antibody Test |
| DIF | Direct Immunofluorescence |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| DNASE | Deoxyribonuclease |
| DOT BLOT | DNA Dot-Blot Hybridization |
| DRBC | Dichloran Rose Bengal Chloramphenicol |
| DRCM | Differential Reinforced Clostridial Medium |
| EHEC | Enterohemoragic E. coli |
| EIA | Enzyme Immunoassay |
| EIEC | Enteroinvasiv E. coli |
| ELISA | Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay |
| EM | Electron Microscopy |
| EMB | Eosin-methylene blue |
| EP | European Pharmacopoeia |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| EPEC | Enteropathogenic E. coli |
| ETEC | Enterotoxigenic E. coli |
| FA | Fluorescent Antibody |
| FC | Flow Cytometry |
| FDA | Food And Drug Administration |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| GC | Gas Chromatography |
| G-CSF | Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor |
| GLC | Gas-Liquid Chromatography |
| GSP | Glutamate Starch Phenol red (agar) |
| HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Viruses |
| HOMoC | Hydrogen sulfide, ornithine decarboxylase, Motility, Citrate |
| IDF | International Dairy Federation |
| IFA | Indirect Fluorescent Antibody |
| IFU | International Federation of Fruit Juice Producers |
| IG, IGG | Immunoglobulin, Immunoglobulin G, Etc. |
| IMVEC | Indol, Metil red, Voges Proskauer, Eijkman (elavated temperature), Citrate |
| IMViC | Indol, Metil red, Voges Proskauer, Citrat |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
| IU | International Unit(S) |
| LA | Latex Agglutination |
| LDH | Lactate Dehydrogenase |
| LEB | Listeria Enrichment Broth acc to FDA/IDF |
| LST | Lauryl Sulfate Tryptose (Broth) |
| MAB | Monoclonal Antibody |
| MIC | Minimum inhibitory concentration |
| MPN | Most Probable Number |
| MR | Metil Red |
| MRD | Maximum Recovery Diluent |
| MRNA | Messenger RNA |
| MRS | Demann Rogosa Sharp (Agar - Broth) |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry |
| MSRV | Modified Semi solid Rappaport Vasiliadis (medium) |
| MUG | 4-Methylumbelliferyl-β-Glucuronide |
| MUP | 4-Methylumbelliferyl-phosphate |
| NAD | Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide |
| NADP | Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate |
| OGYE | Oxytetracycline-Glucose-Yeast Extract (agar) |
| ONPG | O-Nitrophenol-B-Galactopyranoside (B-Galactosidase Testi) |
| PCA | Plate Count Agar |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| PDA | Potato Dextrose Agar |
| PFU | Plaque-Forming Unit |
| PHB | Poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate |
| RBC Agar | Rose Bengal Chloramphenicol Agar |
| RCM | Reinforced Clostridial Medium |
| RIA | Radiometric Immunoassay (Radioimmunoassay) |
| RNA | Ribonucleic acid |
| RRNA | Ribozomal RNA |
| RVS Broth | Rappaport Vassiliadis Soy Broth |
| SD | Standard Deviation(S) |
| SEM | Scanning Electron Micrograph; Scanning Electron Microscopy |
| SMAC | Sorbitol MacConkey (agar) |
| sp. | Species (Þ Tür) |
| spp. | Species (Þ Türler) |
| ssp. | Subspecies (Þ Alt tür) |
| sspp. | Subspecies (Þ Alt türler |
| TB | Tuberculosis; Tuberculin; Tubercle Bacillus |
| TCA | Trichloroacetic Acid |
| TEM | Transmission Electron Micrograph; Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| TSBC Agar | Thiosulfate Citrate Bile Sucrose Agar |
| TSC Agar | Tryptose Sulfite Cycloserine Agar |
| TSST-1 | Toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 |
| TSYE | Tryptone Soy Yeast Extract (agar) |
| TVC | Total Viable Count |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| USP | United States Pharmacopoeia |
| VD | Venereal Disease |
| VP | Voges Proskauer |
| VRB | Violet Red Bile (agar) |
| VRBD | Violet Red Bile Dextrose (VRB) |
| VRBL | Violet Red Bile Lactose (agar) |
| XLD | Xylose Lysine Deoxycholate (agar) |
| YGC | Yeast extract Glucose Chloramphenicol (agar) |