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The resulting incorrect or unnecessary prescription of antibiotics prolongs the treatment time, increases the risk of complications, and promotes the development of antibiotic resistance. Because the procedures do not require the standardized bacterial suspensions normally used in laboratory diagnostics, the time to result is reduced by up to 24 hours compared to conventional testing. The key innovation of the new method is an algorithm that takes the actual bacterial concentration in the urine into account and adjusts its influence on inhibition zone size. The technology is designed so that it can also be applied in low-resource settings, where rapid and reliable diagnostics are particularly critical. says Henning Sabersky-Müssigbrodt, first author of the study and doctoral researcher in Translational Medicine at the Heinz-Nixdorf Chair of Biomedical Electronics."