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INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
Volume 105, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2022.105377
Keywords
Avian influenza virus; Backyard poultry; Prevalence; M gene; Molecular characterizations
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Funding
- UGC (Bangladesh)
- CVASU
- TCSVM
- BALZAC
- USAID PREDICT-2
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The study revealed the genomic epidemiology of AIV in backyard poultry in Bangladesh, with H5 and H9 subtypes circulating among the poultry. Despite the circulation of the 2.3.2.1a (new) clade among chicken and duck populations without causing outbreaks, it may be attributed to vaccination.
Ducks, the natural reservoir of avian influenza virus (AIV), act as reassortment vessels for HPAI and low path-ogenic avian influenza (LPAI) virus for domestic and wild bird species. In Bangladesh, earlier research was mainly focused on AIV in commercial poultry and live bird markets, where there is scanty literature reported on AIV in apparently healthy backyard poultry at the household level. The present cross-sectional study was carried out to reveal the genomic epidemiology of AIV of backyard poultry in coastal (Anowara) and plain land (Ran-gunia) areas of Bangladesh. We randomly selected a total of 292 households' poultry (having both chicken and duck) for sampling. We administered structured pre-tested questionnaires to farmers through direct interviews. We tested cloacal samples from birds for the matrix gene (M gene) followed by H5 and H9 subtypes using real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR). All AIV-positive samples were subjected to four -gene segment sequencing (M, PB1, HA, and NA gene). We found that the prevalence of AIV RNA at the household level was 6.2% (n = 18; N = 292), whereas duck and chicken prevalence was 3.6% and 3.2%, respectively. Prevalence varied with season, ranging from 3.1% in the summer to 8.2% in the winter. The prevalence of subtypes H5 and H9 in backyard poultry was 2.7% and 3.3%, respectively. The phylogenetic analysis of M, HA, NA, and PB1 genes revealed intra-genomic similarity, and they are closely related to previously reported AIV strains in Bangladesh and Southeast Asia. The findings indicate that H5 and H9 subtypes of AIV are circulating in the backyard poultry with or without clinical symptoms. Moreover, we revealed the circulation of 2.3.2.1a (new) clade among the chicken and duck population without occurring outbreak which might be due to vaccination. In addition to routine surveillance, molecular epidemiology of AIV will assist to gain a clear understanding of the genomic evolution of the AIV virus in the backyard poultry rearing system, thereby facilitating the imple-mentation of effective preventive measures to control infection and prevent the potential spillover to humans.
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