Control and prevention of foot-and-mouth disease by conventional vaccination remains unsatisfactory, highlighting the need for novel strategies such as transgenic plant-based vaccines.
This review outlines the limitations of current inactivated FMD vaccines and emphasizes the potential of novel transgenic plant-based vaccines for the global eradication of foot-and-mouth disease.
Control and prevention of foot and mouth disease (FMD) by vaccination remains unsatisfactory in endemic countries. Indeed, consistent and new FMD epidemics in previously disease-free countries have precipitated the need for a worldwide control strategy. Outbreaks in vaccinated animals require that a new and safe vaccine be developed against foot and mouth virus (FMDV). FMDV can be eradicated worldwide based on previous scientific information about its spread using existing and modern control strategies.
Saeed et al. (Wed,) conducted a review in Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). FMD vaccines (inactivated, attenuated, peptide, recombinant, transgenic) was evaluated. Control and prevention of foot-and-mouth disease by conventional vaccination remains unsatisfactory, highlighting the need for novel strategies such as transgenic plant-based vaccines.