Composition

Each 1 ml contains
Tiamulin hydrogen fumarate         125 mg

Properties

• Tiamulin hydrogen fumarate is a semi-synthetic diterpene antibiotic. The mode of action is by inhibition of ribosomal protein synthesis in sensitive bacteria. It is a bacteriostatic antibiotic and the following organisms show sensitivity in vitro:
• Brachyspira: Brachyspira hyodysenteriae, B. pilosicoli
• Mycoplasmas: Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, M. hyorhinis, M. hyosynoviae, Ureaplasma spp., M.gallisepticum, M. synoviae, and M. meleagridis.
• Gram-positive: Staphylococcus spp., Streptococcus spp., Arcanobacterium pyogenes.
• Gram-negative:Pasteurella spp., Klebsiella pneumoniae, Actinobacillus (Haemophilus) spp., Fusobacterium necrophorum, Bacteroides spp., Campylobacter coli, Lawsonia intracellularis.

Indications

Pigs:

For the treatment, prevention and control of swine dysentery caused by Brachyspira hyodysenteriae and complicated by Fusobacterium and Bacteroides spp.

Chickens:

For the reduction in the severity of disease caused by mycoplasmas.

Turkeys:

For the reduction in the severity of disease caused by mycoplasmas

Target species

Pigs, Chickens & Turkeys

Dosage and Administration

For whole product: To be administered orally:

For pigs:

10 ml Osmulin /142 kg bodyweight) administered in the drinkingwater of pigs for 3 to 5 days

For chickens:

100 ml Osmulin /500 kg bodyweight). Tiamulin should be administered at 0.025% in drinking water (2 ml product per litre of water) for 3 – 5 days

For turkeys:

100 ml Osmulin /500 kg bodyweight). Tiamulin should be administered at 0.025% in drinking water (2 ml product per litre of water) for 5 days

Warnings & Precautions

• Monitor water intake at frequent intervals during medication.
• Fresh solutions of Tiamulin-medicated drinking water should be made up each day.

Contra Indications

Animals and birds should not receive products containing monensin, narasin or salinomycin, during or for at least seven days before or after treatment

Side Effects

• On rare occasions erythema or mild oedema of the skin may occur in pigs following the use of Tiamulin hydrogen fumarate
• No adverse effects on egg production, fertility and hatchability in chickens and turkeys

Withdrawal time

Meat:

• Pig and chickens: 2 days
• Turkeys: 5 days

Eggs:

• Zero days

Not permitted for use in animals producing milk for human consumption

Storage condition

Store at temperature not exceeding 30ºC and used after opening for 50 days at temperature not exceeding 30ºC.

Packaging

50, 100, 125, 200, 250, 300, 500 &1000 ml