10 ml vial:
৳ 17.63
(10's pack: ৳ 176.25)
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Indications
Tetravet bolus tablet:
- 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.
- Poultry: Colibacillosis (E. coli), infectious coryza (Haemophilus gallinarum), mycoplasmosis, chronic respiratory diseases, airsacculitis, infectious synovitis (Mycoplasma gallisepticum, Mycoplasma meleagridis, Mycoplasma synoviae) clostridial dermatitis (Clostridium septicum), necrotic enteritis (Clostridium perfringens, types A & C), pullorum disease (Salmonella pullorum) fowl cholera, coccidiosis etc.
- Cattle, Buffalo, Sheep and Goat: Anthrax, haemorrhagic septicaemia, black quarter, rinderpest, brucellosis, calf scour, infectious enteritis, dysentery, pneumonia, navel ill, liver infection, abscess, mastitis, pyometra, metritis, peritonitis, infectious pleuropneumonia, calf diphtheria, paratyphoid, foot-rot, salmonellosis, actinomycosis, anaplasmosis and secondary infections in viral diseases.
- Cattle, Buffaloes, Sheep, Goat & Deer: For the treatment of actinobacillosis, bacterial enteritis, bacterial pneumonia, bovine respiratory disease complex, diphtheria, keratoconjunctivitis (pink eye), leptospirosis, metritis, anaplasmosis, foot-rot, black leg, navel ill, joint ill, heart water, dermatophilosis, enzootic abortion (bedsoniasis), wound infections, mycoplasmosis, Aid in the control or prevention of shipping fever, pneumonia, post operative and post parturient infections.
- Rabbit: For the prevention and treatment of conditions / diseases susceptible to Tetravet including infections due to Pasteurella multocida, Bordetella brochoseptica, Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp etc.
- Poultry: For the prevention and treatment of conditions / diseases susceptible to Tetravet including fowl cholera, fowl typhoid, complicated CRD etc.
Pharmacology
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.
Dosage & Administration
Oxytetracycline bolus tablet:
Cattle and Buffalo 50-100 kg-
Oxytetracycline powder:
Treatment: Oxytetracycline powder as 100 mg/kg body weight or 1 gm per 2.5 litre drinking water for 3-5 consecutive days or 50 gm per 100 kg feed for 7 consecutive days.
Prevention/Growth Promotion: Oxytetracycline powder as 50 mg/kg body weight or 1 gm per 5 litre drinking water for 3-5 consecutive days or 35 gm per 100 kg feed for 7-10 consecutive days.
Calves:
Honey Bees: 0.5 gm Oxytetracycline powder per colony. Usually 3 dustings are required at 4-5 days interval.
Long-Acting Injectable Solution:
Cattle and Buffalo 50-100 kg-
- Preventive: ½ caplet
- Curative: 1 caplet
- Disease of the respiratory tract and others: 2-4 caplets
- Preventive: ½-2/3 caplet
- Curative: 1 caplet
- Disease of the respiratory tract and others: 1 caplet
- Preventive: 1 caplet
- Curative: 1-1½ caplet
- Disease of the respiratory tract and others: 2 caplets
- Preventive: 1½-2 caplets
- Curative: 2-3 caplet
- Disease of the respiratory tract and others: 3-4 caplets
- Disease of the respiratory tract and others:½ caplet
Oxytetracycline powder:
Treatment: Oxytetracycline powder as 100 mg/kg body weight or 1 gm per 2.5 litre drinking water for 3-5 consecutive days or 50 gm per 100 kg feed for 7 consecutive days.
Prevention/Growth Promotion: Oxytetracycline powder as 50 mg/kg body weight or 1 gm per 5 litre drinking water for 3-5 consecutive days or 35 gm per 100 kg feed for 7-10 consecutive days.
Calves:
- Treatment: 40 mg Oxytetracycline per kg body weight for 3-5 consecutive days.
- Prevention/ Growth Promotion: 20 mg Oxytetracycline powder per kg body weight for 7-10 consecutive days.
Honey Bees: 0.5 gm Oxytetracycline powder per colony. Usually 3 dustings are required at 4-5 days interval.
Long-Acting Injectable Solution:
- Cattle, Buffaloes, Sheep, Goat & Deer: Single dose treatment of 1 ml per 10 kg body weight. (or, 20 mg per kg body weight) by IM route.
- Poultry & Rabbit: Single dose treatment of 0.25 ml per kg body weight (or, 50 mg per kg body weight) by subcutaneous route. Severe infections may require re-treatment at 3 to 5 days following initial injection. Or, as advised by the veterinary physician
Interaction
With medicine: Efficacy of penicillin, iron dextran can be decreased when used with Tetravet. The serum concentration of Tetravet can be decreased when used with Bismuth subsalicylate, Calcium gluconate/lactate, aluminium, magnesium & zinc salts. Allow 2-3 hours between doses of Tetravet and antacids.
With feed & others: Not known.
With feed & others: Not known.
Contraindications
Oxytetracycline Powder is contraindicated to use with calcium containing drug or food.
Side Effects
General toxicity is low although collapse has been reported with tetracycline in weak and debilitated animals.
Pregnancy & Lactation
Oxytetracycline Powder should not be used during pregnancy because of the risk of hepatotoxicity in the mother as well as the effects on the developing fetus. Use in pregnancy and lactation may result in impaired bone growth and reduce milk production.
Precautions & Warnings
Milk from lactating cows should not be taken for human consumption during treatment for 48 hours thereafter. Tetravet powder should not be administered to fish for more than 12 consecutive days without at least a
few days break.
few days break.
Overdose Effects
Tetravet has a wide safety margin and overdosing is unlikely to produce toxic symptoms.
Storage Conditions
Store below 30° C temperature. Protect from light. Keep out of reach of children.