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Medicine Brand

Otetra Vet Caplet

Oxytetracycline 500 mg

Strength

500 mg

Dosage Form

Caplet

Indication

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.

Mode of Action

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 Guidance

Dogtreatment
PO

Dose

10 – 50

mg/kg

Frequency

N/A

Duration

N/A

Purpose

treatment

Disease of the respiratory tract and others: ½ caplet

Cattreatment
PO

Dose

10 – 50

mg/kg

Frequency

N/A

Duration

N/A

Purpose

treatment

Disease of the respiratory tract and others: ½ caplet

Cattleprevention
PO

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.

Sheeptreatment
PO

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

Horsetreatment
PO

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

Contraindications

Hypersensitivity to tetracyclines.

Alternatives

— other brands with Oxytetracycline