“…As part of the drug approval process for domestic animals, while efficacy studies are conducted in diseased animals, pharmacokinetic studies are conducted in healthy animals and dosage regimens are applied assuming no changes in the dose–effect relationship in sick patients (Post et al., 2002; Waxman et al., 2003). However, the pharmacokinetic behaviours of drugs are profoundly altered by the acute phase response induced by infectious diseases (Van Miert, 1990, 2000; Sarwari and Mackowiak, 1996; Saitoh et al., 1999, 2000; Monshouwer and Witkamp, 2000; Rao et al., 2000; Kumar and Malik, 2003; Waxman et al., 2003; Elmas et al., 2006). While few articles are available on the pharmacokinetics of ENR in endotoxaemic goats (Rao et al., 2000), mastitic cows (Rantala et al., 2002), infected and endotoxaemic swine (Zeng and Fung, 1997; Post et al., 2002, 2003), no published data are available on the pharmacokinetics of ENR in diseased rabbits.…”