Pharmacokinetics of Enrofloxacin after Single Intravenous and Oral Bolus Administration in Broiler Chicken

Gopala Krishnamurthy. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The pharmacokinetics and bioavailability of enrofloxacin was compared in Cobb strain broiler chicken after intravenous and oral administration of enrofloxacin at the rate of 10mg.kg-1. The concentration of enrofloxacin at various time intervals in plasma was determined by HPLC and the pharmacokinetic parameters were calculated by non compartmental approach. AUC was significantly high in i.v. route (32.721.15 vs 25.351.92g.h.mL-1 whereas highly significant increase in MRT (15.810.54 vs 8.860.23h), Vd area (4.690.16 vs 3.040.09 L.kg-1) and t1/2 (10.570.35 vs 6.840.15h) were noticed in oral route when compared to i.v. route. The Cmax of 1.630.12g.mL-1 was attained at tmax of 3.580.61h and absolute bioavailability was 77.475.86 % after oral administration. PK/PD integration revealed that the dose (10mg.k