Figure 1

Hypothesized causal pathways for farm-level risk factors (green boxes) associated with avian influenza farm-level seropositivity (red box) in backyard chickens in Bangladesh. Yellow headings represent themes or categories under which risk factors can be combined. The causal pathways were used to inform the development of questions used in the interviews with backyard farmers and guided the inclusion of potential confounders and interactions in the final multi-variable model.