| ACDP |
Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens |
| ADAT |
Advanced Data Acquisition Tool |
| AIDS |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| AMR |
Antimicrobial Resistance |
| ARI |
Acute Respiratory Infection |
| ARL |
Anaerobe Reference Laboratory |
| ARMRL |
Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory |
| ART |
Anti-Retroviral Therapy |
| ASP |
Amnesic shellfish poisoning |
| BBV |
Blood Borne Virus |
| BCG |
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin |
| BRU |
Brucella Reference Unit |
| BSE |
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy |
| CAUTI |
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections |
| CBRN |
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear |
| CCDC |
Consultant in Communicable Disease Control |
| CDAD |
Clostridium Difficile Associated Disease |
| CDC |
Centre for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CDI |
Clostridium Difficile Infection |
| CDSC |
Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre |
| CG |
Clinical Governance |
| CHI |
Community Health Index |
| CHP |
Community Health Partnership |
| CJD |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
| CMO |
Chief Medical Officer |
| CMR |
Continuous Morbidity Recording |
| CMV |
Cytomegalo Virus |
| CNO |
Chief Nursing Officer |
| COSHH |
Control of Sustances Hazardous to Health |
| CPHM |
Consultant in Public Health Medicine |
| CRU |
Cryptosporidium Reference Unit |
| CSA |
Common Services Agency |
| DDS |
Decontamination Document System |
| Defra |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| DH |
Department of Health |
| DoH |
Department of Health |
| DSP |
Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning |
| EARSS |
European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System |
| EBLV |
European Bat Lyssa Virus |
| ECDC |
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control |
| ECOSS |
Electronic Comunication of Surveillance in Scotland |
| EDAT |
Endoscopy Decontamination Audit Tool |
| EEA |
European Environment Agency |
| EHS3 |
Environmental Health Surveillance System For Scotland |
| EISS |
European Influenza Surveillance Scheme |
| ENIVD |
European Network for Diagnostics of Imported Viral Diseases |
| ENSHURE |
Enhanced Surveillance of Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome |
| ENTER-NET |
International surveillance network for the enteric
infections Salmonella and VTEC O157 |
| EPA |
Environmental Protection Act |
| EPIC |
European Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care |
| EPIET |
European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training |
| EPO |
Emergency Planning Officer |
| ERNVL |
Enteric Respiratory and Neurological Virus Laboratory |
| ESAC |
European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption |
| ESBL |
Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamases |
| ESMI |
Enhanced Surveillance of Mycobacterial Infections |
| ESSTI |
European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections |
| EU IBIS |
European Union Invasive Bacterial Infections Surveillance |
| EUROHIV |
European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS |
| EUROTB |
Surveillance of Tuberculosis in Europe |
| EUVAC.NET |
Surveillance Community Network for Vaccine Preventable Infectious
Diseases |
| EWGLI |
European Working Group for Legionella Infections |
| FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FOI |
Freedom of Information |
| FOISA |
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 |
| FSA |
Food Standards Agency |
| FSML |
Food Safety Microbiology Laboratory |
| GIS |
Geographical Information System |
| GIZ |
Gastrointestinal and Zoonoses |
| GRE |
Glycopeptide Resistant Enterococci |
| HAART |
Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy |
| HAI |
Healthcare Associated Infection |
| HAV |
Hepatitis A Virus |
| HBV |
Hepatitis B Virus |
| HCV |
Hepatitis C Virus |
| HCW |
Healthcare Worker |
| HDL |
Health Department Letter |
| HDV |
Hepatitis D Virus |
| HELICS |
Hospitals in Europe Link for Infection Control through Surveillance |
| HEPO |
Health Emergency Planning Officer |
| Hib |
Haemophilus influenzae type B |
| HIV |
Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| HMPV |
Human Metapneumovirus |
| HPA |
Health Protection Agency |
| HPIV |
Human Parainfluenza Virus |
| HPS |
Health Protection Scotland |
| HPT |
Health Protection Team |
| HPV |
Human Papillomavirus |
| HSE |
Health and Safety Executive |
| HTLV |
Human T cell Lymphotropic Virus |
| HUS |
Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome |
| IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IC |
Infection Control |
| ICN |
Infection Control Nurse |
| ICT |
Incident Control Team |
| ICT |
Infection Control Team |
| ICU |
Intensive Care Unit |
| ID |
Infectious Disease |
| IDU |
Injecting Drug User |
| ILI |
Influenza Like Illness |
| IPV |
Inactivated Polio Vaccine |
| IRIDE |
Inventory of Resources for Infectious Diseases in Europe |
| ISD |
Information & Statistics Division |
| LDSRU |
Lyme Disease Specialist Reference Unit |
| LEP |
Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens |
| LGV |
Lymphogranuloma Venereum |
| LHCAI |
Laboratory of HealthCare Associated Infection |
| LRU |
Leptospira Reference Unit |
| Malaria RL |
Malaria Reference Laboratory |
| MDRTB |
Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis |
| MEL |
Management Executive Letter |
| Men RU |
Meningococcal Reference Unit |
| MIDAS |
Meningococcal Invasive Disease Augmented Surveillance |
| MMR |
Measles Mumps Rubella |
| MRSA |
Meticillin Resistant Staphlyococcus Aureus |
| Mycob RU |
Mycobacterium Reference Unit |
| Mycology RL |
Mycology Reference Laboratory |
| NCCLS |
National Commmittee for Clinical Laboratory Standards |
| NES |
NHS Education for Scotland |
| NESISS |
National Enhanced Surveillance of Infectious Syphilis Scotland |
| NHS |
National Health Service |
| NICE |
National Institute for Clinical Excellence |
| NPIS |
National Poisons Information Service |
| NRPB |
National Radiological Protection Board |
| NSHAIG |
National Surveillance of HAI Steering Group |
| NSP |
Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning |
| NSS |
National Services Scotland |
| NV |
Norovirus |
| OP |
Organophosphates |
| PAH |
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons |
| PCAT |
Primary Care Audit Tool |
| PCB |
Polychlorinated Biphenyls |
| PDL |
Parasite Diagnostic Laboratory |
| PEP |
Post Exposure Prophylaxis |
| PHIS |
Public Health Institute of Scotland (now Health
Scotland) |
| PHLS |
Public Health Laboratory Service (now Health Protection
Agency) |
| PHM |
Public Health Medicine |
| PHN |
Public Health Nurse |
| PII |
Patient Identifiable Information |
| PPC |
Pollution Prevention and Control |
| PPE |
Personal Protective Equipment |
| PREP |
Pre Exposure Prophylaxis |
| PRL |
Parasitology Reference Laboratory |
| PSP |
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning |
| QIS |
Quality Improvement Scotland |
| RSIL |
Respiratory and Systemic Infections Laboratory |
| RSV |
Respiratory Syncytial Virus |
| SARiS |
Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Scotland |
| SARS |
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
| SASDAT |
Scottish Ambulance Service Decontamination Audit Tool |
| SBVL |
Sexually Transmitted and Blood-borne Virus Laboratory |
| SCIEH |
Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental
Health (now Health Protection Scotland) |
| SE |
Scottish Executive |
| SEAC |
Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee |
| SEERAD |
Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs
Department |
| SEHD |
Scottish Executive Health Department |
SEISS |
Scottish Environmental Incident Surveillance System |
| SEPA |
Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
| SERL |
Scottish E.coli Reference Laboratory |
| SERVIS |
Scottish Enhanced Respiratory Viral Infection Surveillance |
| SFELC |
Scottish Food Enforcement Liaison Committee |
| SHOW |
Scotland's Health on the Web |
| SHPIR |
Scottish Health Protection Information Resource |
| SICP |
Standard Infection Control Precautions |
| SICSAG |
Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group |
| SIGN |
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network |
| SLRL |
Scottish Legionella Reference Laboratory |
| SMPRL |
Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory |
| SMRL |
Scottish Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory |
| SMRSARL |
Scottish MRSA Reference Laboratory |
| SNGRL |
Scottish Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Reference
Laboratory |
| SNIFFER |
Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research |
| SPDL |
Scottish Parasite Diagnostic Laboratory |
| SPIB |
Scottish Poisons Information Bureau |
| SPIDER |
Scottish Pneumococcal Invasive Disease Enhanced Reporting |
| SPRU |
Special Pathogens Reference Unit |
| SRSV |
Small Round Structured Virus |
| SSHAIP |
Scottish Surveillance of Healthcare Associated Infection Programme |
| SSI |
Surgical Site Infection |
| STBRL |
Sexually Transmitted Bacteria Reference Laboratory |
| STI |
Sexually Transmitted Infection |
| STRL |
Scottish Toxoplasma Reference Laboratory |
| TB |
Tuberculosis |
| TRU |
Toxoplasma Reference Unit |
| TSE |
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies |
| TTP |
Thrombotic Thrombocytopaenic Purpura |
| vCJD |
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
| VOC |
Volatile Organic Compounds |
| VRE |
Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci |
| VTEC |
Vero-cytotoxin producing Escherischia coli |
| VZV |
Varicella Zoster Virus |
| WHO |
World Health Organisation |
| WNV |
West Nile Virus |
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