Veterinary composition and a process for the preparation thereof
The subject of the invention:
Antimicrobial and antiprotozoal wettable powder compositions having a special composition, containing 5-nitrofurfurylidene-3-amino-2-oxazolidone as active ingredient, and liotropic liquid crystalline compositions, optionally prepared therefrom in situ and a process for the preparation thereof.
The compositions according to the invention can be used in veterinary therapy.
It is known that 5-nitrofurfurylidene-3--amino-2-oxazolidone exhibits an antimicrobial, antiprotozoal and anticoccidial effect and therefore has an application in the form of different compositions in poultry-farming and for the treatment of enteral infections of newborn animals (pig, calf) (US Patent No. 2 742 462).
The purpose of the invention was to prepare such compositions that show a satisfactory stability in both concentrated and diluted conditions, have
a uniform distribution of the active ingredient which hereby does not precipitate in the course of the application and therefore the danger of toxicosis is diminished.
The wettable powder composition of the invention contains 5-nitrofurfurylidene-3-amino-2-oxazolidone
in 50 to 90 % by weight, surfactant(s) having more than 7 carbon atoms in 5 to 30 % by weight, a polymer having an a value characteristic of the degree of coiling and of the permeability by medium that is greater than 0.6 in 0.1 to 3 % by weight and, optionally, other well-known additive(s) suitable for use in veterinary therapy, such as gliding and colouring agents.
The above compositions can be prepared by mixing 5-nitrofurfurylidene-3-amino-2-oxazolidone in 50 to 90 % by weight, surfactant(s) having more than 7 carbon atoms in 5 to 30 % by weight, a polymer having an a value characteristic of the degree of coiling and of the permeability by medium that is greater than 0.6 in 0.1 to 3 % by weight and, optionally, other well-known additive(s) suitable for use in veterinary therapy, such as gliding and colouring agents; and by converting this mixture into a wettable powder composition according to methods known per se.
Alternatively the composition according to the invention may be prepared by carrying out the dissolution of the auxiliary materials and/or co-surfactants and the grafting with the solid materials simultaneously.
According to the invention the following surfactants can be used:
Anionic materials: carboxylic acid salts, e.g. fatty
acid soaps; sulfates, e.g. alkyl sulfates, preferably sodium dodecyl sulfate; sulfonic acid salts, e.g.
alkyl benzenesulfonates; phosphates, e.g. alkyl phosphates and their salts; esters of ethoxylated fatty alcohols prepared with inorganic acids, preferably with sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid and their salts, etc.
Cationic materials: ammonium salts, e.g. cetyl-trimethyl-ammonium halides; quaternary nitrogen compounds, e.g. N-alkyl pyridinium salts; salts of adducts of alkyl amines or alkyl amides - with ethylene oxide, e.g.
ethoxylated coconut fatty acid amide.
Non-ionic materials: fatty acid esters of polyhydric alcohols, ethoxylated-dianhydrosorbitol-stearates, o-phosphoric acid-trialkyl esters; ethylene oxide adducts, e.g. fatty acid - polyethylene glycol esters, fatty alcohol - ethylene oxide adducts, adducts of alkyl
phenols and ethylene oxide, preferably alkyl phenol
- polyglycol ether; adducts of alkyl amines or alkyl amides with ethylene oxide; adducts of polypropylene glycols with ethylene oxide; o-phosphoric acid triesters of alkyl polyethylene glycol ethers, etc.
Amphoteric materials: preferably internal salts of betains or phosphoric acid derivatives formed with choline.
In the compositions according to the invention the following solvents may be used: water, aliphatic
and/or aromatic solvents, e.g. mineral oils, low molecular ketones, mono- or polyhydric alcohols and ethers; vegetable and animal oils, saturated or unsaturated carboxylic acid having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or unsaturated carboxylic acids having more than 6 carbon atoms.
As co-surfactants alcohols, ketones and
esters containing one or more polar groups; fatty
alcohols, e.g. iso-octanol, dodecanol may be used.
As polymer polyelectrolytes, neutral polymers, natural macromolecules and derivatives thereof, polypeptides having an a value higher than 0.6, may be used.
As polymer polyvinyl pyrrolidone (Mw = 18 000 -- 25000; a = 0.77 - 0,85), polyethylene oxide
(Mw = 1 000; a = 0.82), polyvinyl alcohol (Mw = 78 000; a = 0.77), polyethylene amine (Mw = 12 000; a = 0.89), polyacrylate (Mw = 500 000; a = 0.91), oligodextrane (Mw = 2 000; a = 0.60) and polyethylene oxide - polypropylene oxide (Mw = 10 000; a = 0.84) may preferably be used.
The wettable compositions according to the invention form stable suspensions that show a liotropic liquid crystalline structure. The present invention also provides antimicrobial and antiprotozal liotropic liquid crystalline compositions, which compositions contain a wettable powder composition according to the invention in 0.1 to 10 % by weight and water in an amount that makes up to 100 % by weight.
The liotropic liquid crystalline compositions may, optionally be prepared in situ by mixing an appropriate amount of the wettable powder with the drinking-water of the animals.
The compositions according to the invention can be applied against the following microorganisms that are infectious for animals:
Gram positive cocci: Streptococcus haemolyticus
Stretpcoccus faecalis
Gram negative cocci: Neisseriae
Gram positive bacilli: Bacillus anthracis
Clostridium perfringens
Corynebacteria
Gram negative bacilli: Aerobacter aerogenes
Escherichia coli
Klebsiellae, Salmonellae, Shingellae, Proteae
Protozoa: Giardia, Trypanosoma, Trichomonas
Fungi
The ready-to-use solutions contain 10 to 40 mg/ml active ingredient.
The details of the invention are illustrated by the following examples: Example 1
Wettable powder composition
The active ingredient and the additives,
used optionally, are homogenized. The mixture of the surfactant(s) and the polymer is added to the homogenized powder in small portions. After each addition, the constituents are carefully homogenized. a) active ingredient 85.5 % by weight aerosil 300 0.2 % by weight polyoxyethylene/20/-sorbitane- monostearate (TWEEN 60) 13.8 % by weight polyethylene oxide (Mw = 1 000;
a = 0.82) 0.5 % by weight b) active ingredient 50 % by weight aerosil 300 0.3 % by weight polyoxyethylene/20/-sorbitanetristearate (TWEEN 65) 13.3 % by weight polyvinyl pyrrolidone (Mw = 25 000;
a = 0.85) 1 % by weight saccharose ad 100 % by weight c) active ingredient 90 % by weight Tween 60 9.5 % by weight polyacrylic acid (Mw = 500 000,
a = 0.91) 0.5 % by weight Example 2
Liotropic liquid crystalline composition
The composition according to Example 1a is diluted with water to different extent:
a/1 a/2 a/3 active ingredient 0.2 %+ 0.5 % 2.0 % aerosil 0.0005 % 0.0016 % 0.005 %
TWEEN 60 0.032 % 0.08 % 0.32 % polyethylene oxide 0.001 % 0.003 % 0.03 %
(Mw = 1 000; a = 0.82)
water ad 100 ad 100 % ad 100 by weight
2 hours after the dilution the above compositions show a liquid crystalline structure examined with a polarization microscope (using crossed polarizer and analyzer and calcium sulphate red plate).
Example 3
Comparative composition
a) active ingredient 85.5 % by weight aerosil 300 0.2 % by weight polyoxyethylene-sorbitol-septaoleate 8.3 % by weight (HLB 9.5)
ethoxylated nonylphenol polyglycol
ether (E0 = 10) 4.5 % by weight saccharose 1.5 % by weight b) active ingredient 50 % by weight aerosil 300 0.3 % by weight
polyoxyethylene-sorbitol-septaloate (HLB 9.5) 7.0 % by weight ethoxylated nonylphenol polyglycol
ether (E0 = 10) 5.0 % by weight soybean lecithine 2.0 % by weight saccharose ad 100 % by weight c) active ingredient 90 % by weight
Tween 60 10 % by weight
The compositions 3a and 3b are diluted to 0.2 % by weight regarding the active agent.
2 hours after the dilution the diluted compositions do not show any liquid crystalline structure.