Anticoccidial methods
AssigneeEli Lilly and Company
InventorGeorge O. P. O'Doherty
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to anticoccidial methods, animal feed premixes, and animal feeds, employing a specified o-phenylenediamine or benzimidazole. The present invention is also directed to anticoccidial methods, animal feed premixes, and animal feeds employing two active agents. In such combined therapy, a first substance is a polyether antibiotic, and the second substance is a designated o-phenylenediamine, benzimidazole, or benzimidazoline.
Claims8
A method of treating coccidiosis attributable to Eimeria in a fowl which comprises administering to the fowl an effective amount of an active agent selected from compounds of the formulae ##STR3## wherein R.sup.1 represents bromo or chloro,
- m represents an integer of 0 or 1 and n represents an integer of from 0 to 3, with the sum of m and n being an integer of from 1 to 3;
- R.sup.2 represents difluoroacetyl, chlorodifluoroacetyl, 2,2,3,3-tetrafluoropropionyl, or a perfluoroalkanoyl of from C.sub.2 to C.sub.4 ;
- R.sup.3 represents H, trichloroacetyl, or an independently selected R.sup.2 as described above;
- R.sup.4 represents H, OH, OCH.sub.3, or a group hydrolyzable to a foregoing R.sup.4 moiety;
- and
- R.sup.5 represents difluoromethyl, chlorodifluoromethyl, 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl, or a perfluoroalkyl of C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 ;
- or a physiologically acceptable salt of a Formula II compound.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.