Oxytetracycline 500 mg
500 mg
Caplet
Cattle, Bultalo, Sheep and Goat: Anthrax, haemorrhagic septicaemia, black quarter, rinderpest, brucellosis, pyebnephritis, calf scour, infectious enteritis, malignant edema, dysentery, pneumonia, navel ill, liver infection, abscess, mastitis, pyometra, metritis, peritonitis, kiptospirosis, infectious plauropneumonia, calf diphtheria, castration, paratyphoid, foot-rot, salmonellosis, actinomycosis, anaplasmosis and secondary infections in FMD. Dog, Cat: Pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchitis, infectious enteritis and secondary infections in distemper.
Oxytetracycline is under group of Tetracycline’s which bind to the 30s ribosomal subunit of bacterial ribosome and interfere with the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the mRNA molecule in ribosome complex. Thereby interfere with bacterial protein synthesis in growing or multiplying bacteria leading to bacteriostatic but higher concentration results bacteriocidal action.
Dose
10 – 50
mg/kg
Frequency
N/A
Duration
N/A
Purpose
treatment
Disease of the respiratory tract and others: ½ caplet
Dose
10 – 50
mg/kg
Frequency
N/A
Duration
N/A
Purpose
treatment
Disease of the respiratory tract and others: ½ caplet
Dose
2.5 – 5
mg/kg
Frequency
N/A
Duration
N/A
Purpose
prevention
Cattle and Buffalo (50-100 kg) Infectious scour (Preventive): ½ caplet Infectious scour (Curative): 1 caplet Disease of the respiratory tract and others: 2-4 caplets.
Dose
25 – 0.1
mg/kg
Frequency
N/A
Duration
N/A
Purpose
treatment
Infectious scour (Preventive): ½-⅔ caplet Infectious scour (Curative): 1 caplet Disease of the respiratory tract and others: 1 caplet
Dose
700 – 2000
mg/animal
Frequency
N/A
Duration
N/A
Purpose
treatment
Infectious scour (Preventive): 1 caplet Infectious scour (Curative): 1-1½ caplet Disease of the respiratory tract and others: 2 caplets
Hypersensitivity to tetracyclines.