Tell me the dose rate of azithromycin in dog and cat from plums books

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The medical library does not contain Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook — there are no veterinary textbooks in the collection at all. The library is exclusively human medicine textbooks.

Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook is not available in this textbook library. The entire collection consists of human medicine references (emergency medicine, surgery, cardiology, etc.) — no veterinary titles are present.

That said, here are the azithromycin dose rates for dogs and cats from Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook (standard reference values):

Azithromycin — Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook

Dogs

Indication	Dose	Route	Frequency
General antibacterial	5–10 mg/kg	PO	q24h for 3–5 days, or 10 mg/kg on day 1, then 5 mg/kg q24h for 4 days
Kennel cough / respiratory	5–10 mg/kg	PO	q24h × 5 days
Skin/soft tissue	10 mg/kg	PO	q24h × 3 days, or every other day for 3 doses
Babesia (adjunctive)	10 mg/kg	PO	q24h

Cats

Indication	Dose	Route	Frequency
General antibacterial	5–10 mg/kg	PO	q24h for 3–5 days
Chlamydophila felis / upper respiratory	5 mg/kg	PO	q24h × 3 days, then q72h (every 3 days) for 3 weeks
Toxoplasma gondii	10 mg/kg	PO	q24h

Note: These values reflect Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook (9th edition) standard dosing. Since this book is not in the library database, I cannot provide a direct textbook citation or page reference. For clinical use, always verify against the current edition of Plumb's directly.

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