Dr. Indranil Samanta is an Assistant Professor at the West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences. Prior to his current position, he conducted his post-graduate research at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) and subsequently served as Assistant Professor at S.K. University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-K). Dr. Samanta’s research focuses on Indian livestock, poultry, captive birds, and pet animals as sources of zoonotic pathogens such as STEC, EPEC, EHEC, Salmonella, Klebsiella, Cryptococcus, and dermatophytes. He has authored four books entitled Veterinary Bacteriology, Veterinary Mycology, Pet bird diseases and care, and Antimicrobial Resistance in Agriculture. Dr. Samiran Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Scientist at ICAR-IVRI. His research focuses on emergence of antimicrobial resistance in livestock from eastern and north-eastern India. Recent interests include etiopathogenesis of diarrheal and abortive illnesses of yaks in the Himalayan ranges