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Pig vaccine candidate outperforms leading available treatment in new trials

A vaccine developed to tackle Streptococcus suis, an economically damaging disease endemic in the global pig population, has outperformed a leading commercially available vaccine in a challenge trial. The trial showed the vaccine candidate—developed by an international consortium including The Vacci...

Pig vaccine candidate outperforms leading available treatment in new trials
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A vaccine developed to tackle Streptococcus suis, an economically damaging disease endemic in the global pig population, has outperformed a leading commercially available vaccine in a challenge trial. The trial showed the vaccine candidate—developed by an international consortium including The Vaccine Group (TVG), the University of Plymouth and Moredun Scientific Limited—to be effective against a heterologous serotype of the disease.

Originally published at Phys.org

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