Erythromycin Thiocyanate(7704-67-8)
Product Description
● Erythromycin thiocyanate is the thiocyanate salt of erythromycin, a commonly used macrolide antibiotic, which is a veterinary drug for the treatment of gram-positive bacteria and protozoa infections. Erythromycin thiocyanate has been widely used as "animal growth promoter" abroad.
● Erythromycin thiocyanate is mainly used for serious infections caused by drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus hemolyticus, such as pneumonia, septicemia, endometritis, mastitis, etc. It is also effective in the treatment of chronic respiratory disease in poultry and mycoplasma pneumonia in pigs caused by mycoplasma, and in the treatment of nocardia in dogs and cats; Erythromycin thiocyanate can also be used to prevent and control white head and white mouth disease in fry and fish species of green, grass, silver and bighead carp, grass carp and green carp. Erythromycin thiocyanate can also be used for the prevention and treatment of white head and white mouth disease in fry and fish species of green, grass, bighead and silver carp, grass carp, bacterial gill rot in green carp, white skin disease in bighead and silver carp and streptococcal disease in tilapia.
Tests items | Acceptance criteria | Results | |
Appearance | White or almost white crystalline powder | Almost white crystalline powder | |
Identification | Reaction 1 | Be positive reaction | Positive reaction |
Reaction 2 | Be positive reaction | Positive reaction | |
Reaction 3 | Be positive reaction | Positive reaction | |
pH (0.2%water suspension) | 5.5-7.0 | 6.0 | |
Loss on drying | Not more than 6.0% | 4.7% | |
Transmittance | Not less than 74% | 91% | |
Residue on ignition | Not more than 0.2% | 0.1% | |
Assay | Biological potency (on dried substance) | Not less than 755IU/mg | 808IU/mg |