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For cats, a combination of doxycycline (5 mg/kg every 12 hours with water flush after every oral dose) and pradofloxacin (5 mg/kg ever 12 hours) is the recommended therapy, until clinical or experimental research treatment trails provide evidence of a more optimal therapy.
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