From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-09-18 17:43:43 UTC
Subject: RE: Baytril
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <4865960.1095529423814.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
They are quinoline compounds with "somewhat similar structures".
From:
http://chemistry.clemson.edu/ChemDocs/faculty/arya/teaching/cipro_for_chick=
ens.html
>a frenzy has erupted over the possibility of bioterrorism. A drug which im=
mediately appeared on the front page =
>of almost every major newspaper was Cipro=AE. This drug was cited as one o=
f the only antibiotics which =
>possesses the capability to fight an Anthrax outbreak. (http://www.msnbc.c=
om/local/rtny/m104641.asp)With =
>antibiotic resistance on the rise, the continued effectiveness of Cipro re=
lated medications has become a crucial =
>issue. This article discusses the possibility of Cipro=92s sister drug Bay=
tril=AE...
>Two different antibiotics are discussed in this article. Cipro and Baytril=
are both quinolone compounds. They =
>have somewhat similar structures.
The similarity of the two drugs is one reason why there are many infectious=
disease specialists who want Baytril to no longer be given to farm animals=
on a routine basis (and in Europe it is actually more common for other app=
roaches to be used now). Cipro is useful against several forms of food poi=
soning but the typical U.S. chicken is given Baytril so often that forms of=
those bacteria who are resistant to both Baytril and it's cousin Cipro ap=
pear to have become another but inadvertent product of some farms where peo=
ple thought they'd been doing the best thing for the public. Hence, most o=
f the resources I found on these antibiotics were on just that topic (and a=
ll referred to the drugs as "cousins", "sister drugs", "related", "similar"=
, etc. Examples:
http://www.jhsph.edu/Environment/CLF_Press/CLF_in_press/Walker_Silbergeld_N=
YTimes_OpEd.html
http://www.angelfire.com/oh/ZebraDirectory/cksondrgs.html
http://www.cbgnetwork.org/home/Newsletter_KCB/KCB__128/kcb__128.html
http://www.tufts.edu/med/apua/Ecology/ecologynews.html
In this reading I find that it's a touchy topic which has potential impact =
for pet animals because although there are those who have a sense of modera=
tion and want to stop the routine giving of antibiotics to farm animals (wh=
ich makes sense to me personally) there are also a few who overreact and wa=
nt to retain antibiotics for human use only (but now I'll stop because that=
is bordering on breaking the FHL rules in terms of avoiding political topi=
cs and I don't want to dance too close to that line). =
So, getting back on topic they aren't the same but very similar.
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