MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517045536 A) filed by University Of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, on May 12, for 'recombinant lsdv vectored foot and mouth disease antigenic constructs.'

Inventor(s) include Williamson Anna Lise; Chapman Rosamund; and De Moor Warren Ralph Josephus.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This invention relates to a recombinant LSDV vector comprising a cassette encoding a foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) polyprotein and a modified FMDV 3C protease. The invention also relates to a composition containing the rLSDV vector and the...