Britain to ban laminitis med over drug-resistance fears

Britain’s Veterinary Medicines Directorate says it volition stage out the importation of Virginiamycin for veterinarian use.

Importation of Virginiamycin volition last phased out over the side past times side ii years together with volition last banned completely from September 30, 2014, it says.

Virginiamycin is the active element inward Founderguard, a veterinary medicine used to preclude laminitis inward horses.

Founderguard is unauthorised inward the UK but it may currently last imported from Commonwealth of Australia past times a veterinarian surgeon nether the directorate’s Special Treatment Certificate (STC) Scheme.

Virginiamycin is a streptogramin defined past times the World Health Organisation every bit a course of pedagogy of antibiotics critically of import inward human medicines.

The directorate has decided to phase out the usage of Founderguard because it says at that topographic point is no robust evidence to advise that the continued usage of Virginiamycin volition non pose a direct chances inward damage of antimicrobial resistance developing.

There is no robust evidence that Founderguard prevents laminitis, the directorate said inward a press statement, adding that laminitis can be managed through creature husbandry together with pasture management.

“The phasing out of the usage of Founderguard is usage of the UK’s approach to assist to trim down the direct chances of resistant organisms developing to antibiotics together with thus helping to safeguard human wellness together with creature health,” it said.

The directorate said it  encouraged veterinarian surgeons together with Equus caballus owners to explore option arrangements inward the administration of laminitis.

Its conclusion was welcomed past times the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) together with the British Veterinary Association (BVA).

BEVA chairman Keith Chandler said his organization supported the staged withdrawal of  Founderguard for usage inward the horses inward the United Kingdom.

“Recent advances inward the handling together with diagnosis of the underlying causes of laminitis receive got improved our agreement together with administration of the disease, all the same nosotros produce recognise that simply about horses receive got been managed amongst this medication successfully.

“The staged withdrawal volition allow Equus caballus owners, inward collaboration amongst their equine veterinarian surgeon, to find
option handling or administration strategy for their animals.”

BVA president Carl Padgett said his association supported the staged withdrawal, proverb it was inward trouble amongst the BVA’s policy of responsible usage of all medicines, including minimising safe usage of antimicrobials to trim down the direct chances of resistance.

“While the postulate for Founderguard has diminished every bit a upshot of our improving agreement of laminitis, a staged withdrawal volition ensure a transitional menstruum for horses already beingness prescribed the medicine.

“The threat of resistance inward animals together with humans is i that the BVA takes seriously together with nosotros back upward measures that promote the responsible usage of these vital medicines. In the detail illustration of virginiamycin together with its importance every bit a critically of import antimicrobial inward human medicine, its usage inward horses is no longer justified.”

Virginiamycin is a streptogramin defined past times the World Health Organisation every bit a class of antibiotics critically of import inward human medicines because at that topographic point are only limited therapies available for the handling of multi-drug resistant Enterococcus faecium together with Staphylococcus Aureus infections.

In improver at that topographic point is the potential for transmission of Enterococcus spp together with multi-drug resistant S.aureus from non-human sources. Virginiamycin is non used inward human medicine, but structurally related streptogramins (such every bit quinopristin / dalfopristin) are.

Resistance to virginiamycin tin give the sack confer cross-resistance to other antimicrobials, including quinopristin/dalfopristin.
The Veterinary Medicines Directorate s is an executive way of the Department for Environment, Food together with Rural Affairs (Defra). The directorate authorises veterinarian medicines together with continues to monitor their quality, security together with efficacy next authorisation.

 

 

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