Therapeutic efficacy of doxycycline hyclate in experimental Escherichia coli infection in broilers.

Author(s): Goren E, de Jong WA, Doornenbal P, Laurense T

Affiliation(s): Poultry Health Institute, Doorn, The Netherlands.

Publication date & source: 1988-01, Vet Q., 10(1):48-52.

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Treatment of experimentally induced colibacillosis in broilers with doxycycline hyclate through the drinking water was just effective at a dose of 200 mg/kg body weight (1000 ppm). The achieved therapeutic effects were similar to those of tetracycline at the same dose and of flumequine at a dose of 19 mg/kg body weight (100 ppm).