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Appendix G: Acronyms and abbreviations

AIDS: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
ANSI: American National Standards Institute
CC-PCR: cell culture polymerase chain reaction
CT: concentration × time
DALY: disability-adjusted life year
DAPI: 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole
DBP: disinfection by-product
DNA: deoxyribonucleic acid
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)
FACS: fluorescently activated cell sorting
FISH: fluorescence in situ hybridization
HCT-8: human ileocaecal adenocarcinoma (cell line)
HIV: human immunodeficiency virus
ID50: median infective dose
IFA: immunofluorescence assay
IFN: interferon (e.g., IFN-?)
Ig: immunoglobulin (e.g., IgA, IgG, IgM)
IL: interleukin (e.g., IL-12)
IMS: immunomagnetic separation
LT1ESWTR: Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (U.S.)
LT2ESWTR: Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (U.S.)
LYL: life years lost
mRNA: messenger ribonucleic acid
NSF: NSF International
NTU: nephelometric turbidity unit
PCR: polymerase chain reaction
PI: propidium iodide
QMRA: quantitative microbial risk assessment
RFLP: restriction fragment length polymorphism
rRNA: ribosomal ribonucleic acid
RT-PCR: reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
SCC: Standards Council of Canada
T10: the detention time at which 90% of the water passing through the unit is retained within the basin
UV: ultraviolet
WHO: World Health Organization
YLD: years lived with disability