Treatment of Mycoplasma wenyonii infection in cows with imidocarb dipropionate injection-acupuncture.
Sixteen shorthorn cows from Xiazhuang farm were admitted to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at the College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University for evaluation of poor appetite, listlessness, fever, tachycardia, tachypnea, lethargy, positive jugular venous pulse and anemia. Blood smear examination and polymerase chain reaction analysis in these cows revealed an infection with Mycoplasma wenyonii. The subjects were divided into two groups: control group (three cows) treated with intramuscular injection with imidocarb dipropionate (3 mg/kg/day for 2 days) and the experimental group (13 cows), treated with injection-acupuncture (Imidocarb Dipropionate, 1 mg/kg, once every 3 days for 6 days) at BL17, BL18, BL20, BL25, ST36, SP06 and CV04. At day 15, negative results were found using blood smear examination in all control and experimental groups.
Yan
Zhengui
Z
College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, China.
Liu
Jianzhu
J
Chen
Tiantian
T
Cheng
Ziqiang
Z
Guo
Huijun
H
Wang
Zhenyong
Z
Wang
Yong
Y
D015669:Acupuncture Points; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D007095:Imidocarb / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D009174:Mycoplasma / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology*; D009175:Mycoplasma Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology
D007095:Imidocarb; C031719:imidocarb dipropionate