Ning Wang , Pan Huang , Jun Zhang , Minqi Lin , Xiaoru Lai , Jianwen Chen , Chungen Pan
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Abstract
African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious acute hemorrhagic viral disease, with the mortality rate of up to 100 % in domestic pigs. In recent years, ASF outbreaks have caused huge economic losses in numerous countries and regions, especially in Asia. Therefore, there is a pressing need to develop safe and effective vaccines against infection of the causative pathogen, African swine fever virus (ASFV). ASFV contains a large genome composed of double-stranded DNA with a size of 170–194 kb, which encodes nearly 200 viral proteins. Understanding the function of these complex genes/proteins and their roles in the generation of protective immunity will help in the development of ASFV vaccines. In this article, the gene/protein-based vaccine candidate are summarized, and the structural proteins which have been previously reported to protect animals from the virus challenge were emphatically described.