Product Description
For the treatment of systemic infections in cattle, horses, sheep and pigs caused by or associated with organisms sensitive to penicillin and/or streptomycin including:
Arcanobacterium pyogenes
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Listeria spp
Mannheimia haemolytica
Pasteurella multocida
Staphylococcus spp (non-penicillinase producing)
Streptococcus spp
Salmonella spp
and for the control of secondary bacterial infection with sensitive organisms in diseases primarily associated with viral infection
Dosage & Administration
Administer by deep intramuscular injection.
Recommended dosage rate is 8 mg/kg bodyweight procaine penicillin with 10 mg/kg bodyweight dihydrostreptomycin sulphate equivalent to 1 ml per 25 kg bodyweight.
Treatment should be given once daily for up to 3 consecutive days.
The maximum dose volume administered at one site should not exceed 15 ml for horses, 6 ml for cattle, 3 ml for sheep and 1.5 ml for pigs.
Withdrawals
Animals must not be slaughtered for human consumption during treatment.
Sheep:
- Not to be used in sheep producing milk for human consumption.
- Sheep intended for human consumption should not be slaughtered until 31 days after the last treatment.
Cattle:
- Milk for human consumption must not be taken during treatment.
- Milk for human consumption may only be taken from cows after 60 hours from the last treatment.
- Cattle intended for human consumption should not be slaughtered until 23 days after the last treatment.
Pigs:
- Pigs intended for human consumption should not be slaughtered until 18 days after the last treatment.
Horses:
- Not to be used in horses intended for human consumption.
- Treated horses may never be slaughtered for human consumption.
- The horse must have been declared as not intended for human consumption under national horse passport legislation
