“…The FMDV causes foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), which is highly contagious in various cloven-hoofed animals, such as pigs, cows and goats [ 2 , 3 ]. The FMDV genome is 8.5 kb and consists of one open reading frame (ORF), which encodes a single polyprotein that is subsequently proteolyzed into four structural proteins (SPs: VP1, VP2, VP3 and VP4) and eight nonstructural proteins (NSPs: L pro , 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 3C pro and 3D) [ 2 , 4 , 5 ].…”