Smartphone app turns ordinary phones into powerful antibiotic resistance detectors

A modern laboratory with a scientist using a smartphone to scan a Petri dish containing antibiotic discs

Antibiotic resistance has become one of the greatest threats to modern medicine, making once-curable infections increasingly difficult to treat. Now, researchers have developed a semi-automated smartphone application that can accurately measure and interpret antibiotic susceptibility tests, potentially bringing faster and more reliable detection of drug-resistant bacteria to hospitals and laboratories …

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