Equimax Oral Gel for Horses

Country: Italy

Language: English

Source: HMA (Heads of Medicines Agencies)

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Active ingredient:

ivermectin 18.7 mg, praziquantel 140.3 mg

Available from:

Virbac S.A.

ATC code:

QP52AA51

Pharmaceutical form:

Oral gel

Therapeutic group:

ivermectin, combinations

Therapeutic area:

Horses Food

Authorization date:

2011-01-20

Summary of Product characteristics

                                SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
  
1. NAME OF THE VETERINARY MEDICINAL PRODUCT  
Equimax oral gel for Horses 
  
2. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION  
Each gram of Equimax contains 
ACTIVE SUBSTANCES 
 
Ivermectin  
18.7 mg 
Praziquantel 
140.3 mg 
EXCIPIENTS 
 
Titanium dioxide (E171) 
20 mg 
Propylene glycol 
731 mg 
 
 
For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1 
  
3. PHARMACEUTICAL FORM  
Oral Gel. 
  
4. CLINICAL PARTICULARS  
 
  
   4.1 TARGET SPECIES  
Horses. 
  
   4.2 INDICATIONS FOR USE, SPECIFYING THE TARGET SPECIES  
For the treatment of mixed cestode and nematode or arthropod
infestations, due to adult and 
immature roundworms, lungworms, bots and tapeworms in horses: 
 
- NEMATODES 
 
Large-strongyle: 
_Strongylus vulgaris _(adult and arterial larvae) 
_Strongylus edentatus _(adult and L4 tissue larval stages) 
_Strongylus equinus _(adult) 
_Triodontophorus _spp._ _(adult) 
 
Small-strongyle: 
Cyathostomum_: Cylicocyclus _spp._,
Cylicostephanus _spp.,_ Cylicodontophorus _spp.,_ _
_Gyalocephalus _spp. (adult and non-inhibited mucosal larvae). 
 
Parascaris: _Parascaris equorum _(adult and larvae)_._ 
 
Oxyuris: _Oxyuris equi _(larvae)_._ 
 
Trichostrongylus:_Trichostrongylus axei _(adult)_._ 
 
Strongyloides: _Strongyloides westeri _(adult). 
 
Habronema: _Habronema _spp_. (_adult_),_ 
 
Onchocerca: _Onchocerca _spp_._ microfilariae i.e. cutaneous
onchocerciasis 
 
Lungworm: _Dictyocaulus arnfieldi _(adult and larvae). 
 
CESTODES (Tapeworm): _Anoplocephala perfoliata,
Anoplocephala magna, Paranoplocephala _
_mamillana._ 
 
DIPTERAN INSECTS:_ Gasterophilus _spp. (larvae) 
 
As tapeworm infestation is unlikely to occur in horses before two
months of age, treatment of 
foals below this age is not considered necessary. 
  
   4.3 CONTRAINDICATIONS  
Do not use in foals under 2 weeks of age.Do not use in mares from
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