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NHS Scotland - Medical acronyms Category: Agriculture and Industry > Glossary of medical acronyms Date & country: 09/11/2010, UK Words: 193

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

PCB
Polychlorinated Biphenyls

PCAT
Primary Care Audit Tool

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