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    This document outlines the syllabus for a veterinary chemotherapy course. It covers classification and principles of antibacterial, antifungal, anthelmintic, and antiprotozoal agents. Specific drug classes are mentioned, including penicillins, cephalosporins, sulfonamides, fluoroquinolones, tetracyclines, rifampin, and ivermectin. The syllabus also addresses antiviral drugs, antiseptics, growth promoters, indigenous plant-based medicines, and new drug formulations.

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    This document outlines the syllabus for a veterinary chemotherapy course. It covers classification and principles of antibacterial, antifungal, anthelmintic, and antiprotozoal agents. Specific drug classes are mentioned, including penicillins, cephalosporins, sulfonamides, fluoroquinolones, tetracyclines, rifampin, and ivermectin. The syllabus also addresses antiviral drugs, antiseptics, growth promoters, indigenous plant-based medicines, and new drug formulations.

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    George Baker
    This document outlines the syllabus for a veterinary chemotherapy course. It covers classification and principles of antibacterial, antifungal, anthelmintic, and antiprotozoal agents. Specific drug classes are mentioned, including penicillins, cephalosporins, sulfonamides, fluoroquinolones, tetracyclines, rifampin, and ivermectin. The syllabus also addresses antiviral drugs, antiseptics, growth promoters, indigenous plant-based medicines, and new drug formulations.

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    VPT 411: Veterinary Chemotherapy (2+0)

    SYLLABUS THEORY
    Antibacterial agents: Classification, general principles in antibacterial chemotherapy, antibacterial resistance. Sulphonamides and their combination with diaminopyrimidines, sulfones, nitrofurans, nalidixic acid and fluoroquinolones. Antibiotics: Penicillins and cephalopsorins, polypeptides. aminoglycosides, agents: tetracyclines, methenamine,

    chloramphenicol,

    macrolides,

    Miscellaneous

    bacitracin. Rifampin. novobiocin, viginamycin, lincosamides and vancomycin.


    Antifungal agents: Topical and systemic agents including anti-fungal antibiotics. Anthelmintics: Drugs used against cestodes, trematodes, nematodes, drug resistance, broad-spectrum anthelmintics. Antiprotozoal agents: Drugs used in trypanosomosis, theileriosis, babesiosis, coccidiosis, amoebiosis, giardiosis and trichomonosis. Ectoparasiticides, Antiviral and anticancer agents. Antiseptics and disinfectants. Growth promoters. Common indigenous drugs of plant origin with proven pharmacological and therapeutic efficacies in various animal ailments. New drugs and drug formulations.

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