A randomized controlled field trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of two sets of treatment strategies on ceftiofur and tetracycline resistance in feedlot cattle. The strategies consisted of ceftiofur crystalline-free acid (CCFA) administered to either one or all of the steers within a pen, followed by feeding or not feeding a therapeutic dose of chlortetracycline (CTC). Eighty-eight ste...

Drug delivery systems based on polymeric microparticles represent an interesting field of development for the treatment of several infectious diseases for humans and animals. In this work, we developed PLGA microparticles loaded with ceftiofur (PLGA-cef), a third- generation cephalosporin that is used exclusively used in animals. PLGA-cef was prepared by the double emulsion w/o/w method, and ex...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a blanket systemic preventive treatment (PT) of cows having retained fetal membranes (RFM) with 1 mg/kg of ceftiofur administered the first day after calving regardless of their body temperature. This strategy was compared with a selective treatment (ST) strategy in which only cows having RFM and a rectal temperature > or = 39.5 degree...

Salmonella enterica is a gram-negative, rod shaped bacillus, which inhabits the intestines of mammals, reptiles and birds. In the United States, Salmonella is one of the leading causes of food-borne illness, and is typically acquired through the consumption of contaminated food or water. Modern public health practises have lead to a decrease in the number of Salmonella infections, however, ther...

a rapid, specific and accurate proton quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic (1h qnmr) and also a reversed phase derivatization hplc method have been developed to quantify a toxic, uv-visible inactive and non-volatile impurity n,n-dimethylamine hydrochloride (dma∙hcl) in metformin hydrochloride (mf∙hcl), an active pharmaceutical ingradient. the method is based on proton quantitat...

The pharmacokinetics of ceftiofur sodium were determined in domestic chicks, turkey poults, adult cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus), and adult orange-winged Amazon parrots (Amazona amazonica) after subcutaneous (chicks and turkey poults and intramuscular (i.m.) dosing (cockatiels and Amazon parrots). Turkey poult data were best fit to a single exponential model with disappearance half-lives (t...

A systematic analysis of the bacteriostatic/bactericidal effect of several antibiotics used in veterinary medicine was carried out by time-kill kinetic analysis using P. haemolytica, P. multocida, A. pleuropneumoniae, and E. coli. The antibiotics tested were enrofloxacin, danofloxacin, erythromycin, tilmicosin, penicillin G, ceftiofur and tetracycline. Unexpectedly, the antibiotics well charact...

A mixture of acetaminophen, diphenhydramine hydrochloride and pseudoephedrine hydrochloride is used for the symptomatic treatment of common cold. In this study, a derivative spectrophotometric method based on zero-crossing technique was proposed for simultaneous determination of acetaminophen, diphenhydramine hydrochloride and pseudoephedrine hydrochloride. Determination of these drugs was perf...