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Serum chlortetracycline concentrations in parrots fed medicated seed diets
Author(s) -
WARD KL
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
australian veterinary journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1751-0813
pISSN - 0005-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-0813.1997.tb14192.x
Subject(s) - chlortetracycline , sunflower , sunflower seed , biology , food science , zoology , antibiotics , veterinary medicine , agronomy , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine
Various seed diets containing chlortetracycline were fed to large and small parrots to evaluate serum chlortetracycline concentrations. The substitution of dehulled sunflower seed for whole sunflower in the seed mix may have resulted in higher chlortetracycline concentrations in cockatoos and parrots. The serum chlortetracycline concentration achieved for all diets was less than the goal of 1 μg/mL, but the concentrations attained may be useful for therapy.