31.   The CDC has made reducing antibiotic resistance a priority, calling on doctors to prescribe drugs sparingly and urging institutions to conduct careful surveillance for problems.

32.   The drug, Synercid, manufactured by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc., is not a panacea for antibiotic resistance.

33.   The federal government should step up its monitoring of new disease microbes and their acquisition of antibiotic resistance, McCaig and Hughes say.

34.   The long-criticized use of the drugs causes human antibiotic resistance.

35.   The overuse of antibiotics in human medicine has also contributed to the emergence of antibiotic resistance, experts say.

36.   The United States has no coordinated national surveillance system for tracking antibiotic resistance in all states.

37.   They have uncovered evidence of a new route by which dangerous antibiotic resistance genes can spread.

38.   Together, the studies suggest that antibiotic resistance genes are being transferred from the environment into our bodies, she says.

39.   When doctors do write prescriptions, he argued in favor of amoxicillin rather than a stronger antibiotic, since it is less likely to cause antibiotic resistance.

40.   While it adds to the increasing worries about antibiotic resistance among disease-causing bugs, the report carries no immediate significance for the public.