What is Florfenicol?
Florfenicol is a thiamphenicol derivative, which is similar in action to chloramphenicol. It works by inhibiting protein synthesis within the bacteria. Florfenicol displays a broad spectrum of antibacterial activity against gram-negative bacilli, gram-positive cocci, and atypical bacteria like Mycoplasma.
Florfenicol functions by targeting the ribosomes within the bacterial cell. Ribosomes are essential components for the synthesis of proteins, which are critical for cell growth and replication.
Can florfenicol be used in food animals?
Florfenicol can be used in food animal.Florfenicol Injection is an antibiotic drug used to treat or prevent certain bacterial infections in livestock animals such as cows, goats, sheep and pigs.
- In cattle, it is primarily used to treat bovine respiratory disease (BRD) caused by Mannheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida and Histophilus, as well as hoof rot.
- In swine, it treats swine respiratory disease (SRD) caused by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, Pasteurella multocida and Mycoplasma pneumoniae, as well as colibacillosis caused by E. coli.
- In poultry, it is effective against respiratory infections, cholera and mycoplasmosis. In aquaculture, florfenicol is used to treat bacterial septicemia, cold water disease, and stigma.
- In sheep and goats, florfenicol can be used to treat respiratory infections, similar to cattle.
- In addition, florfenicol is used to treat mastitis in dairy cattle and skin and soft tissue infections in a variety of animals.
Usage and dosage of Florfenicol injection
Intramuscular injection: one dose, per 1kg body weight, chicken 0.2ml, pig, sheep 0.15~0.2ml, cattle 0.075~0.1ml, every 48 hours, for 2 times.
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