id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-255574-gqekw0si Samanta, Indranil Chapter 14 Biosecurity Strategies for Backyard Poultry: A Controlled Way for Safe Food Production 2018-12-31 .txt text/plain 13644 699 54 The source of microbial infection (Salmonella, Escherichia coli) and their dissemination through the eggs in backyard flocks kept in different agroclimatic zones of West Bengal, a major egg producing state in India, was identified. In developing countries, the backyard poultry sector mostly suffers from two infectious diseases, such as Avian influenza (AI) and Newcastle disease (ND) due to lack of biosecurity and proper vaccination (Alexander, 2001) . Avian influenza virus (AIV) infection is reported from poultry and wild birds in Asia, Africa, and Europe (OIE, 2013). In Italy, eight HPAI outbreaks in backyard poultry flocks infected with H5N2 virus were reported in 1997-98 (Alexander, 2000) , while chickens raised for recreational purposes in the urban localities in the Netherlands acted as major risk factors for a HPAI outbreak in 2003 (Slingenbergh et al., 2004) . Risk for infection with highly pathogenic Avian influenza virus (H5N1) in backyard chickens in Bangladesh ./cache/cord-255574-gqekw0si.txt ./txt/cord-255574-gqekw0si.txt