title: Treatment of Mycoplasma wenyonii infection in cows with imidocarb dipropionate injection-acupuncture.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, China.
authors.forename: Zhengui
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Jianzhu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Tiantian
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Ziqiang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Huijun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Zhenyong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D007095:Imidocarb; C031719:imidocarb dipropionate