Zactran
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Zactran 150mg/ml Injection
Product Description
Zactran 150mg/ml Injection is a fast-acting, long-lasting antibiotic designed to treat respiratory infections in cattle and pigs. The active ingredient, gamithromycin, is a macrolide antibiotic that targets the pathogens responsible for Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) in cattle and Porcine Respiratory Disease (PRD) in pigs. Zactran provides rapid relief within hours of administration and maintains its efficacy for up to 10 days, ensuring prolonged protection with a single dose. Ideal for high-risk environments, it helps improve animal welfare and productivity by reducing illness and ensuring quicker recovery.
Key Features:
- Active Ingredient: Contains gamithromycin (150 mg/ml), a potent macrolide antibiotic specifically formulated to target respiratory pathogens.
- Fast-Acting: Provides rapid antibacterial action, with noticeable improvement in animal health within hours of administration.
- Long-Lasting Efficacy: Offers up to 10 days of protection with just one injection, reducing the need for repeat treatments and lowering labor costs.
- Broad-Spectrum Activity: Effective against the primary bacterial pathogens causing Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) in cattle and Porcine Respiratory Disease (PRD) in pigs.
- Single-Dose Treatment: Easy-to-administer single-dose injection ensures hassle-free treatment with long-lasting protection, improving compliance and reducing stress for the animals.
Benefits:
- Rapid Treatment of Respiratory Disease: Zactran targets key respiratory pathogens, including Mannheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida, and Histophilus somni in cattle, and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Haemophilus parasuis in pigs, offering fast relief from symptoms.
- Improves Animal Welfare: By providing quick and sustained relief from respiratory infections, Zactran helps animals recover faster, improving their overall health and welfare.
- Reduces Economic Losses: Respiratory diseases can lead to decreased growth rates, poor feed efficiency, and production losses. Zactran helps mitigate these losses by effectively treating and preventing the progression of these diseases.
- Ideal for High-Risk Environments: Zactran’s long duration of action makes it particularly useful in high-stress environments such as feedlots, where animals are at increased risk of respiratory infections.
- Veterinary Recommended: Trusted by veterinarians for its safety, efficacy, and ease of administration, Zactran is a reliable choice for respiratory disease management in both cattle and pigs.
Zactran 150mg/ml Injection is an essential tool for treating respiratory diseases in cattle and pigs, providing fast-acting, long-lasting protection with a single dose. By ensuring quicker recovery and extended protection, it helps maintain animal health, improves productivity, and reduces the economic impact of respiratory infections. Always consult your veterinarian for appropriate dosing and administration.
Dosage & Administration
A single dose of 6 mg gamithromycin/kg body weight (equivalent to 1 ml/25 kg body weight) into the neck (cattle and pigs) or anterior to the shoulder (sheep). To ensure correct dose, body weight should be determined as accurately as possible to avoid underdosing.
Cattle and sheep
- Subcutaneous injection.
- For treatment of cattle over 250 kg and sheep over 125 kg body weight, divide the dose so that no more than 10 ml (cattle) or 5 ml (sheep) are injected at a single site.
Pigs
- Intramuscular injection.
- The injection volume should not exceed 5 ml per injection site.
The cap may be safely punctured up to 60 times. For multiple vial entry, an automatic dosing device is recommended to avoid excessive broaching of the stopper.
Withdrawals
Meat and offal:
- Cattle: 64 days
- Sheep: 29 days
- Pigs: 16 days
Milk
- Not authorised for use in lactating animals producing milk for human consumption.
- Do not use in pregnant animals which are intended to produce milk for human consumption within 2 months (cows, heifers) or 1 month (ewes) of expected parturition.
100ml
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