Equimax Tabs 150 mg / 20 mg Chewable Tablet for Horses

Summary of Product characteristics

                                Revised: June 2013
AN: 00550/2012
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SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
1.
NAME OF THE VETERINARY MEDICINAL PRODUCT
Equimax Tabs 150 mg / 20 mg Chewable tablet for Horses
2.
QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION
Each chewable tablet of 3300 mg contains:
ACTIVE SUBSTANCES
Ivermectin
....................................................................
20
mg
Praziquantel.................................................................
150
mg
For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1
3.
PHARMACEUTICAL FORM
Chewable tablet
White, circular, biconcave tablet with brown spots.
4.
CLINICAL PARTICULARS
4.1
TARGET SPECIES
Horses
4.2
INDICATIONS FOR USE, SPECIFYING THE TARGET SPECIES
For the treatment of mixed cestode, nematode and arthropod
infestations, due to
adult and immature roundworms, lungworms, bots and tapeworms in
horses:

NEMATODES
Large-strongyles:
_Strongylus vulgaris _(adult and arterial larvae)
_Strongylus edentatus _(adult and L4 tissue larval stages)
_Strongylus equinus _(adult and L4 larval stage)
_Triodontophorus _spp._ _(adult)
Small-strongyles:
Cyathostomum (adult and non-encysted mucosal larvae)_: Cylicocyclus _
spp._, _
_Cylicostephanus _spp., _Gyalocephalus _spp.
Parascaris: _Parascaris equorum _(adult and larvae)_._
Oxyuris: _Oxyuris equi _(adult and larvae)_._
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Trichostrongylus: _Trichostrongylus axei _(adult)_._

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 horses producing milk for human consumption.
Do not use in horses known to be hypersensitive to the active
ingredients or any of
the other ingredients.
The product has been formulated for use in horses only.
Cats, Dogs (especially Collies, Old Engl
                                
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