Pig vaccine candidate outperforms leading available treatment in new trials
Jan 23, 2026
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 Vac
cine Group (TVG), the University of Plymouth and Moredun Scientific Limited—to be effective against a heterologous serotype of the disease. ...read more read less