Tylosin Tartrate 20% Injection For Infectious Disease

Tylosin Tartrate 20% Injection For Infectious Disease

Indications:

Tylosin Tartrate 20% Injection  could treat shipping fever, pneumonia, foot rot, calf diphtheria, metritis in beef cattle and non-lactating dairy cattle. Treats mycoplasmal swine arthritis, pasteurella pneumonia, erysipelas, acute swine dysentery in swine.

Pharmacological action:

Tylosin is thought to have the same mechanism of action as erythromycin (binds to 50S ribosome and inhibits protein synthesis) and exhibits a similar spectrum of activity. Veterinary tylosin injection is a bacteriostatic antibiotic. For more specific information on organisms that tylosin is usually active against, refer to the erythromycin monograph just prior to this one. Cross resistance with erythromycin occurs.

Antibacterial drugs: amoxicillin, penicillins, gentamicin, tilmicosin

Usage and administration:

Beef and non-lactating dairy cattle: Inject IM 8 mg per pound of body Weight (1 mL per 25 pounds) once daily. Treatment should be continued 24 hours after symptoms of the disease have stopped, not to exceed 5 days. Do no inject more than 10 ml per injection site.

Swine: Inject IM 4 mg per pound of body weight (1 mL per 50 pounds) twice daily. Treatment should be continued 24 hours after symptoms of the disease have stopped, not to exceed 3 days. Do not inject more than 5 mL per injection site.