Anticoccidial methods and feedstuffs
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.
Claims39
A method of controlling coccidiosis in a fowl which comprises administering to the fowl both a first substance and a second substance, said first substance being a polyether antibiotic and said second substance selected from the group consisting of compounds of the formula ##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.4 represents H, OH, OCH.sub.3, or a group hydrolyzable to a foregoing R.sup.4 moiety;
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- R.sup.5 represents difluoromethyl, chlorodifluoromethyl, 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl, or a perfluoroalkyl of C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 ;
- and the physiologically acceptable salts thereof;
- said first and second substances being administered in amounts which, together, are effective to control coccidiosis in the fowl.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.