{"topic_id":"exotic_fish_antimicrobial_therapy","category":"exotic-pet-health","context":"---\ntopic_id: exotic_fish_antimicrobial_therapy\ncategory: exotic-pet-health\ntitle: \"Pet fish antimicrobial therapy — medicated food delivery, oxytetracycline dosage, route by infection site\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Merck Veterinary Manual (merckvetmanual.com) — non-Open-Access; paraphrased derived fact summary per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/exotic-health/mvm_fish_management.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-29\ntokens_estimated: 119\nverified: true\nverification:\n  method: paraphrase\n  claims: 3\n  passed: 3\n  date: 2026-08-04\nsource_document: \"Merck Veterinary Manual — Fish Management (saved first-hand text)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Merck Veterinary Manual\"\n  title: \"Pet fish antimicrobial therapy — medicated food delivery, oxytetracycline dosage, route by infection site\"\n  url: \"https://www.merckvetmanual.com/exotic-and-laboratory-animals/fish\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-29\"\n  ref: \"first-hand Merck Veterinary Manual text\"\n  doc_type: \"official veterinary manual (EN)\"\n  needs_review: false\nlicense: paraphrase\ncopyright_note: \"Source Merck Veterinary Manual (merckvetmanual.com) is © Merck & Co., Inc. and not openly licensed; per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3 all claims are paraphrased derived fact summaries (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten), not verbatim quotations.\"\nauthority_tier: T3\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T3:vet-ref\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-04\n---\n# Pet fish antimicrobial therapy — medicated food delivery, oxytetracycline dosage, route by infection site\n\nSource: Merck Veterinary Manual (merckvetmanual.com), a copyrighted professional veterinary reference. Per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3, the points below are paraphrased derived fact summaries: numerical values and proper nouns are preserved from the source, but sentences are rewritten and not quoted verbatim.\n\n## Claims\n\n*[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Antimicrobials can be given by several routes, but medicated food is most common and usually most effective.\n*[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Oxytetracycline can be fed at 55–83 mg/kg/day for 10 days to control many gram-negative infections, including columnaris disease.\n*[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Baths and topical treatments suit external infections, while medicated food and injections suit internal ones.\n","sources":["exotic-pet-health — Pet fish antimicrobial therapy — medicated food delivery, oxytetracycline dosage, route by infection site (retrieved 2026-07-29)"],"source":{"authority":"exotic-pet-health","title":"Pet fish antimicrobial therapy — medicated food delivery, oxytetracycline dosage, route by infection site","url":"https://www.merckvetmanual.com/exotic-and-laboratory-animals/fish","retrieved":"2026-07-29","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Merck Veterinary Manual — Fish Management (saved first-hand text)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/exotic-health/mvm_fish_management.txt"},"source_document":"Merck Veterinary Manual — Fish Management (saved first-hand text)","source_file":"pdf-raw/exotic-health/mvm_fish_management.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T3","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"paraphrase","display_grade":"B"},"tokens_estimated":119,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}