Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is a picornavirus belonging to the Aphthovirus genus (Soria et al., 2017). FMDV has seven distinct serotypes, namely O, A, C, SAT1, SAT2, SAT3 and Asia 1. This virus produces foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a devastating and highly transmissible infection of farm animals, with large associated economic losses. Some countries are either FMD free or close to achieving eradication, while others are at an early stage of FMD control. In many countries, FMD control is performed by regular vaccination based on inactivated whole virus (Soria et al., 2017).