Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis 2019
Most often are used subconjunctival,
intramuscular, intravenous and subcutaneous antibiotics (Brown et al., 1998). Studies show
that most effective and best for healing time are antibiotics such as penicillin, florfenicol and
cloxacillin indicate active treatment reduces healing time compared with placebo. Two
cloxacillin dosages of 20 mg/kg should be administered via intramuscular or subcutaneous 72
hours apart. Florfenicol, given once subcutaneously (40 mg/kg) or twice 2 days apart
intramuscularly (20 mg/kg) to experimentally infected calves. On the figure 2 are shown the
recovery processes, when the florfenicol is used to heal the pink eye (Angelos, 2015).
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Figure 2 Progression of eye healing during 77-days. When the first clinical sings were noticed
the calf was treated with florfenicol (40 mg/kg SC). Although the eye healed, unfortunately
calf was permanently blind in the affected eye (Angelos, 2018).
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