AAAAI: American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
AAC: AIDS Action Council
AAM: American Academy of Microbiology
AARDA: American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association
Ab: antibody
ABLES: Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance
ACAAI: American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
ACVM: American College of Veterinary Microbiologists
ada: adenosine deaminase
ADCC: Antibody Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity
AES: Auger Electron Spectroscopy
AFM: Atomic Force Microscopy
Ag: antigen
AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
APC: antigen presenting cell
ApEnM: Applied Environmental Microbiology
ApMic: Applied Microbiology
AR: autosomal recessive
ARTEMIS: Artemis protein
ASCIA: Australasian Socienty of Clinical Immunology and Allergy
ASHI: American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
ASM: American Society for Microbiology
AT: Ataxia Telengiectasia
ATM: Ataxia telangiectasia mutated
BCCM: Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms
BLM: Bloom syndrome
BSA: Bovine Serum Albumin
BTK: Bruton agammaglobulinemia tyrosine kinase
C: constant
C: With
C': Complement
C-AFM: Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy
CD: Cluster Designation antigen
cgd: chronic granulomatous disease
CHAVI: Center for HIV-AIDS Vaccine Immunology
CHS1: Chediak-Higashi syndrome 1
CID: Combined immunodeficiencies
CMI: cell mediated immunity
con a: concanavalin a
CSA: Colony Stimulating Activity