1.   Moreover, they say, long regimens of expensive antibiotics are unnecessary, and can be even dangerous, after the infection has cleared.

2.   The much more common and less expensive antibiotics, doxycycline and amoxicillin, are as effective, they said.

3.   Throughout South Florida, people with no connection to the company are begging doctors for prescriptions for Ciprofloxacin and other expensive antibiotics.

4.   While hospitals substituted more expensive antibiotics for most infections, there was no alternative for infants with congenital syphilis.

5.   Key to the program were free doses of Zythromax, an expensive antibiotic so powerful that patients need just one dose a year.

6.   Chua said breeders could push up prices of chicken following the ban in their move to substitute to more expensive antibiotics.