Researchers collaborating with Biotec have found that a bacterium carried by pigs has become resistant to antibiotics and caused death in laboratory mice during experimental testing.
The number of human infections is also likely to increase, the researchers warned.
Speaking at a seminar organised by the National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Biotec), Parichart Boueroy, a researcher from the Faculty of Public Health at Kasetsart University, said her team collected Streptococcus suis (S. suis) bacteria from infected patients to study virulence, focusing on strains found only in Thailand.
