Open AccessThe Effect of Baytril against Salmonella london Infection in Chickens
Author(s) -
Z. A. Al-Chalabi
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the iraqi journal of veterinary medicine/al-maǧallaẗ al-ṭibbiyyaẗ al-bayṭariyyaẗ al-’irāqiyyaẗ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2410-7409
pISSN - 1609-5693
DOI - 10.30539/iraqijvm.v29i1.881
Subject(s) - enrofloxacin , salmonella , litter , biology , caecum , veterinary medicine , broiler , zoology , colonization , isolation (microbiology) , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , bacteria , antibiotics , ciprofloxacin , ecology , genetics
The purpose of this study was to obtain additional information regardingthe effectiveness of Enrofloxacin (Baytril®) against artificially inducedinfection of S. london in chickens.One hundred and sixty one day old chicks of mixed sex were dividedequally into two groups A (treated group) and B (control, infected non-treatedgroup). Chicks were reared on separated rooms on wood shavings litter, andgiven water and irradiated feed continuously for 55 days. All chickens wereinfected at 3 days with 4×105 S. london/ml in drinking water. The administrationof salmonella was followed by intestinal colonization, detected by isolation ofsalmonella from cloacal swabs, caecal contents and quantitative numeration pergrams of caecal contents, weekly for 8 weeks.Group A was treated with Enrofloxacin (Baytril®) 0.5 ml/L drinking wateron day 45 for 5 days. Twelve days after the end of the therapy the presence ofsalmonella could not be detected by cloacal swabs and in caecal contents.This suggests that Baytril seems to have a good efficiency in totalelimination of salmonella from the intestine of infected chickens.