Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Combined with Lateral Flow Dipstick for On-Site Diagnosis of African Swine Fever Virus

Dear Editor,African swine fever (ASF) is one of the most important porcine infectious diseases and has caused huge economic losses worldwide (Teklue et al. 2020). African swine fever virus (ASFV), the causative agent of ASF, is a double stranded DNA virus with a genome about 170 to 194 kb in length, and encodes 150 to 167 open reading frames(ORFs). There are more than 50 proteins involved in the mature virions. Among these proteins, p72 encoded by B646L gene is the essential component in the formation of ASFV particles. The sequence of B646L gene is also usually used for the genotyping of ASFV, and there are 24B646L genotypes (Quembo et al. 2018).