21.   When a drug kills a wide variety of bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, as ampicillin does, it encourages resistant bacteria belonging to many different species to multiply.

22.   Widespread, indiscriminate use of antibiotics has created highly resistant bacteria.

23.   A stomach-cancer patient who died this spring was infected with bacteria resistant to antibiotics, the first such death in Japan, a health official said Tuesday.

24.   Bacteria resistant to antibiotics have become a major global problem and will lead to increased death, illness and health care costs, European health officials said Thursday.

25.   Because the ketolides are chemically different, the resistant bacteria do not spit them out this way.

26.   European health officials on Thursday said bacteria resistant to antibiotics have become a major global problem and will lead to increased death, illness and health care costs.

27.   Experts say if Cipro is taken for a few days while anthrax test results are awaited, that too can contribute to resistant bacteria.

28.   FDA also is examining the use of products that could convey resistant bacteria to poultry.

29.   Illnesses caused by the resistant bacteria are increasing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

30.   Test strips containing bacteria more resistant to the gas fumigation than anthrax were placed in the building.