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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
