Exotic Animal Formulary5

or
800 mg/animal
PO q12h 3
25 mg/kg PO, IM
q12h 90
Prosimians
Tylosin 2 mg/kg IM q24h 3 Monkeys
5 mg/kg PO q12h 86 Clostridium; treat concurrently with
metronidazole
Vancomycin
20 mg/kg IM
q24h×10 days 13
20 mg/kg IM, IV
q12h 3
500 mg/animal PO
q6h×7-10 days;
can give IV slow 3
Rhesus macaques/chronic diarrhea
Monkeys
Chimpanzees
Table 13-2
Antiparasitic Agents Used in Primates.
Agent Dosage Species/Comments
Albendazole 10 mg/kg PO 7 Eulemur 7
10 mg/kg PO q24h×6
wk 41
20 mg/kg PO
q12h×5 days 51
25 mg/kg PO
q12h×5 days 19,59
28.5 mg/animal PO
q12h×10 days×3
at 10 day
intervals 94
50 mg/kg PO
q12h×16 days 33,41
Common
marmosets/Encephalitozoon
cuniculi
Geoffroy’s tamarins
(n=3)/Angiostrongylus; treat
concurrently with
prednisolone
New World primates, Old World
primates/Filaroides, Giardia, 19
gastrointestinal nematodes 59
Red ruffed lemur
(n=1)/cysticercosis; administer
with praziquantel (SC)
Common marmosets, cottontopped
tamarins/Acanthocephalus sp.
100 mg/kg PO Common marmosets, cotton-
831