Use of tetracycline sorbate for the treatment of Aspergillus fumigatus infection in broiler chicks.

The efficacy of tetracycline sorbate (Pimafungil; contains 20% tetracycline sorbate w/v) was evaluated for treatment of Aspergillus fumigatus in naturally infected broiler chicks. The drug was administered to a group of 160 infected broiler chicks at 200 mg/l of drinking water, daily and consecutively for 5 days. Another group of 100 infected broiler chicks was kept as untreated controls. The chicks of the treated group showed appreciable improvement in clinical symptoms, mortality, body weight and recovery as shown by absence of gross and histopathological lesions and of the fungus.