Withdrawal of cefoperazone with milk after intramammary administration in dairy cows - prospective and retrospective analysis

• Published in: Polish journal of veterinary sciences Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 261 - 268
• Main Authors: Burmańczuk, A, Grabowski, T, Błądek, T, Kowalski, C, Dębiak, P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee of Veterinary Sciences 01-03-2017
• Subjects: Animal lactation; Animals; Anti-Bacterial Agents - administration & dosage; Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacokinetics; Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; Antibiotics; Area Under Curve; Cattle; Cefoperazone; Cefoperazone - administration & dosage; Cefoperazone - pharmacokinetics; Cefoperazone - therapeutic use; Chromatography; Data analysis; Drug Administration Routes; Drug Residues; Drugs; Female; Financial analysis; Half-Life; Mastitis, Bovine - drug therapy; Methods; Milk; Milk - chemistry; Pathogens; Retrospective Studies; Studies; Substance abuse treatment; Veterinary medicine; pharmacokinetics; mastitis; cefoperazone; cows
• ISSN: 1505-1773; 2300-2557
• DOI: 10.1515/pjvs-2017-0031

The aim of the study was to carry out retrospective and prospective comparative analyses of the pharmacokinetics of CEF after single intramammary (IMM) administration in cows. The prospective study (study A) was conducted on 9 dairy cows of the Polish Black-White race with clinical mastitis during the lactation period. Milk samples were collected at 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 24, 36, 48, 72 and 84 h after single IMM administration of 250 mg of CEF to one quarter. Drug concentrations in milk samples were determined by HPLC-MS/MS technique and the results of the pharmacokinetic analysis were compared to those obtained in previous studies based on the microbiological (study B) and HPLC-UV methods (study C and D). Pharmacokinetic parameters were calculated based on adapted two-compartment model of drug distribution. One of the findings of the comparison of the analysed investigations is that the CEF kinetics determined with the microbiological method is consistent with the results obtained by the authors of this paper. Both studies yielded similar results of the key pharmacokinetic parameters related to the level of the drug distribution to tissues and elimination half-life. In the pharmacodynamic analysis, the observations in all four studies were entirely consistent and have shown lower values of T>MIC90 in healthy animals and significantly higher values in infected dairy cows. The comparison of studies A, B, C, and D revealed that the time of complete CEF wash-out of 90.90% varied and amounted to 5.7, 8.0, 2.2, and 2.2 days after administration of the drug, respectively. It was confirmed that not only the type of the analytical method but also correct sampling have a significant impact on determination of the correct value of the drug half-life after IMM administration. The comparative analysis of studies in which the milk yield was high and low allows a conclusion that this parameter in the case of CEF has no significant effect on T>MIC90.