At present, the ASFV p72 gene is commonly used for detecting ASFV due to its high conservation (9, 10), but as a late-transcription gene in ASFV (11), p72 shows low expression levels during the early stages of infection, making it difficult to accurately detect and measure viral loads, which may result in the misdiagnosis of some ASFV cases during the incubation period or early stages of infection. Here, DDX17 is linked to infection.