1.   An important consideration is that multiple drug resistance has rendered many low-cost drugs useless for this purpose.

2.   Furthermore, blind use of antibiotics on such a large scale and the attendant difficulties with compliance might well aggravate the problem of drug resistance.

3.   And normal cells, he said, do not reshuffle their genes and so do not develop drug resistance.

4.   Area hospitals also reported increases in drug resistance among samples of different bacteria.

5.   As a part of the experiment, scientists tested the volunteers for drug resistance.

6.   At worst, it risks increasing levels of drug resistance.

7.   A number of studies are now showing that experts have been wrong in some of their earlier practices in treating drug resistance.

8.   Controversy has developed around tests to detect drug resistance because of their expense and lack of proof that the findings actually help infected people live longer.

9.   Doctors frequently pin drug resistance on non-adherent patients, which frustrates people who have followed their regimens.

10.   Dr. Lawrence Corey of the University of Washington in Seattle said health officials are lagging in creating programs to monitor drug resistance for HIV and other viruses.