Tialong 80% FEED

Tialong 80% belongs to antibiotics of the pleuromutilin group.

Tiamulin, which is formulated into the drug, is a broad-spectrum antibiotic of the pleuromutilin group that is active against mycoplasms including Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, M. hyorhinis, M. hyosynoviae, M. synoviae, M. gallisepticum, M.meleagridis, Brachyspira (Brachyspira hyodysenteriae, Br. innocens, Br. pilosicoli, Br. suis), gram-positive aerobes including Staphylococcus spp., Streptococcus spp. Corynebacterium pyogenes, and anaerobes (Clostridium perfringens), gram-negative anaerobes including Lawsonia intracellularis, Bacteroides spp., Fusobacterium spp. and aerobes Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, Pasteurella multocida. (Erysipelothrix spp., Listeria spp., Klebsiella pneumoniae, Campylobacter).

The bacteriostatic action mechanism involves the inhibition of protein synthesis on bacterial cell ribosomes.

After oral administration of the drug, tiamulin is well absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract and penetrates into most organs and tissues of the body reaching maximal concentrations in pigs in 2 hours and remains at therapeutic level for 18-24 hours. Tiamulin is metabolized in the liver into inactive metabolites that are excreted from the body mainly with feces and to a lesser extent with urine.

Tialong 80% FEED is indicated to swine for the treatment and prevention of with enzootic pneumonia, actinobacillous pleuropneumonia, dysentery and proliferative enteropathy (ileitis) and intestinal spirochetosis; for prevention of secondary bacterial infections in viral infections.

Swine may be slaughtered for food no sooner than 7 days after the last application of Tialong 80% FEED. The meat of the slaughtered animals before the above stated period can be used as feed for fur animals.