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Single-cell AST approaches offer the potential to shorten diagnostic turnaround times; however, reliably distinguishing antibiotic-sensitive from antibiotic-resistant strains at the single-cell level remains challenging. In this study, we employed bacterial cytological profiling (BCP), a single-cell imaging technique previously used for mechanism of action identification, to quantitatively analyze the morphological responses of ciprofloxacin (CIP)-sensitive and CIP-resistant\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Acinetobacter baumannii<\/jats:italic>\n                      strains, including both laboratory and clinical isolates. Upon CIP treatment, resistant strains generally exhibited a significantly reduced degree of morphological change compared with sensitive strains, independent of their resistance level. We then leveraged these differences in the degree of morphological response to develop a phenotypic discrimination framework for future AST applications. 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