Gallitrim WS

Erythromycin & sulfadiazine & trimethoprim water-soluble powder

  • Composition
  • Contains per gram powder:
  • Erythromycin thiocyanate
    200 mg.
  • Sulfadiazine (as sulfadiazine sodium)
    150 mg.
  • Trimethoprim
    30 mg.

Description

The combination of sulfadiazine and trimethoprim has synergistic and bactericidal action against a broad range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and erythromycin even broadens the range to E. coli, Pasteurella spp., Salmonella spp., Staphylococcus spp., Streptococcus spp., Haemophilus paragallinarum, Campylobacter spp., Rickettsia spp., Chlamydia spp. and Mycoplasma spp. Erythromycin is a macrolide antibiotic which binds reversibly to the 50S subunit of ribosomes, resulting in the blockage of transpeptidation or translocation reactions, leading to impaired and/or inhibited protein synthesis and, hence, to inhibited cell growth. Sulfadiazine and trimethoprim both affect bacterial purine (building blocks of DNA) synthesis in a different stage on the same pathway by inhibiting the metabolism of folic acid which is needed for purine synthesis. As a result a double blockage is accomplished and cell growth is inhibited. Gallitrim WS is specially indicated against the below mentioned diseases while other antibiotics and chemotherapeutics do not work effectively in cases of resistance problem.

Indications

Gallitrim WS is indicated for the treatment of general infections of the urogenital, digestive and respiratory tract caused by Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria or Mycoplasma spp. in foals, calves, pigs and poultry.

Foals and calves: Respiratory and gastrointestinal infections.
Pigs:           Colibacillosis, scours, enteritis, enzootic pneumonia, bronchopneumonia, APP,
atrophic rhinitis, MMA-complex and salmonellosis.
Poultry:   CRD (Mycoplasma infections), infectious diseases due to S. aureus, bronchopneumonia, pullorum disease, fowl typhoid, cholera, septicaemia, enteritis, coryza and pasteurellosis, prevention and treatment of coccidiosis.

Contra indications

Hypersensitivity to erythromycin, sulfonamides and/or trimethoprim.
Administration to animals with a seriously impaired renal and/or hepatic function or with blood dyscrasias.
Concurrent administration of tetracyclines, chloramphenicol, macrolides and lincosamides.

Side effects

Hypersensitivity reactions.

Dosage

For oral administration.

Foals and calves:   7.5 g per 50 kg body weight per day via drinking water for 3 - 6 days.
Pigs:     1 - 2 g per 10 kg body weight per day via drinking water for 3 - 6 days.
Poultry:   1 kg per 2000 litres of drinking water for 5 days.

Note: for pre-ruminant calves only.

After mixing the product with drinking water it should be used within 24 hours.

Withdrawal times

- For meat:
  Calves and pigs: 10 days.
  Poultry: 12 days.
- For eggs: 10 days.

Packaging

Sachet of 100 g and jar of 1000 g.
Gallitrim WS

Product Code:

WEST