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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 869626" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>It's not just in Wisconsin. </p><p>I see anaplasmosis in cattle here in KY/TN almost every year, and have been seeing 2-3 dead anaplasmosis cows coming through the diagnostic lab every day for at least the last 3 weeks. </p><p>Treatment for clinicall-ill animals is injection of a long-acting oxytetracycline product at the appropriate dosage. Penicillin would have no effect on <em>Anaplasma</em> - and a single injection of penicillin is only effective for about 12 hours, so even if it did work, it wouldn't last long enough.</p><p>Oxytet treatment may save sick ones, but will not 'clear' the infection. Just suppresses growth of the parasite long enough to allow the animal's immune and blood-production systems to 'catch up'.</p><p>Best control, in herds known to be infected, is feeding CTC(chlortetracycline), in feed or mineral, at a level of 0.5 mg/lb(of cow)/day through the tick/fly season. Feeding CTC at a level of 2mg/lb/day for 60 days will clear the infection - but cleared animals are susceptible to reinfection and potential death, just as if they'd never been exposed before.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure that there's a vaccine still available - and if so, its use has to be approved on a herd-by-herd basis, by the state veterinarian.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 869626, member: 12607"] It's not just in Wisconsin. I see anaplasmosis in cattle here in KY/TN almost every year, and have been seeing 2-3 dead anaplasmosis cows coming through the diagnostic lab every day for at least the last 3 weeks. Treatment for clinicall-ill animals is injection of a long-acting oxytetracycline product at the appropriate dosage. Penicillin would have no effect on [i]Anaplasma[/i] - and a single injection of penicillin is only effective for about 12 hours, so even if it did work, it wouldn't last long enough. Oxytet treatment may save sick ones, but will not 'clear' the infection. Just suppresses growth of the parasite long enough to allow the animal's immune and blood-production systems to 'catch up'. Best control, in herds known to be infected, is feeding CTC(chlortetracycline), in feed or mineral, at a level of 0.5 mg/lb(of cow)/day through the tick/fly season. Feeding CTC at a level of 2mg/lb/day for 60 days will clear the infection - but cleared animals are susceptible to reinfection and potential death, just as if they'd never been exposed before. I'm not sure that there's a vaccine still available - and if so, its use has to be approved on a herd-by-herd basis, by the state veterinarian. [/QUOTE]
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