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Detailed description
Baytril ® 10% Injectable Solution
Composition
1 ml injectable solution contains 100 mg Enrofloxacin.
Indications for use
Enrofloxacin is a synthetic anti-infective of the fluoroquinolone class.
Baytril ® 10% injectable solution is indicated for the therapy of infectious diseases in pigs where clinical experience, supported if possible by sensitivity testing of the causal organisms, indicates Enrofloxacin as the drug of choice.
Respiratory and enteric diseases (Pasteurellosis, Mycoplasmosis, Colibacillosis, Colisepticaemia and Salmonellosis) and multifactorial diseases such as atrophic rhinitis, enzootic pneumonia and metritis-mastitis-agalaxia syndrome in sows.
Baytril ® is effective against the following microorganisms: Mycoplasma spp., E. coli, Salmonella spp., Bordetella spp., Pasteurella spp., Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Staphylococcus spp.
Route of administration
For intramuscular and intravenous administration.
Not more then 2.5 ml should be administered at one i.m. injection site.
Dosage
The dose rate is 2.5 mg Enrofloxacin/kg bw, (= 2.5 ml Baytril ® 10% inj. solution/100 kg bw) For complicated respiratory disease this rate may be doubled to 5 mg/kg bw ( = 5 ml Baytril ® 10% inj. solution/100 kg bw).
Treatment interval
24 hours
Duration of treatment
3 5 days
