“…Currently, the disease control is carried out mainly through vaccination using attenuated gene-deletion vaccines along with differential diagnosis to differentiate vaccinated from infected animals (Muller et al, 2011;Freuling et al, 2017). Since the implementation of this strategy in 1980s, PRV has been successfully eradicated from domestic pigs of many countries, including the United States, most of Europe and New Zealand (Pannett et al, 1999;An et al, 2013;Ketusing et al, 2014;Freuling et al, 2017). For the Chinese swine industry, has been widely used since early 1990s (An et al, 2013;Sun et al, 2016); it was imported from Hungary in 1979 that contains a complete deletion of the region coding for glycoprotein E (gE) and US9 and partial deletion within the gI and US2 coding regions (Bartha, 1961;Yuan et al, 1983;Lomniczi et al, 1984).…”