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There’s only one problem: Injecting oxytetracycline into citrus trees is not approved by the E.P.A., and applying the drug via injection would be prohibitively expensive, growers and industry officials say.

They hope that regular treatments with two common drugs, streptomycin and oxytetracycline, will slow the bacterial disease, known as citrus greening, that has crippled the industry.

This month, the US Environmental Protection Agency is in the final stages of approving a huge ramp-up in spraying of two human antibiotics, streptomycin and oxytetracycline, on citrus groves in Florida and California.

Years ago, she was prescribed oxytetracycline for an acne outbreak on her face; though she was convinced the antibiotics weren’t going to help, she took them anyway.

The most common antibiotic in the samples was oxytetracycline, which is also the most widely used antibiotic in farmed fish.