CRISPR
/Cas9‐mediated genome editing can inhibit virus infection by targeting the conserved regions of the viral genomic
DNA
. Unexpectedly, we found previously that pseudorabies virus (
PRV
) could escape from
CRISPR
/Cas9‐mediated inhibition. In order to elucidate whether the escape of
PRV
from Cas9‐mediated inhibition was due to cell deficiencies, such as genetic instability of sg
RNA
or Cas9 protein, the positive cells were passaged ten times, and
PRV
infection in the sg
RNA
‐expressing cells was evaluated in the present study. The results showed that subculturing cells has no effect on Cas9‐mediated cleavage of
PRV
. Different passages of
PX
459‐
PRV
cells can stably express sg
RNA
to facilitate Cas9/sg
RNA
cleavage on the
UL
30 gene of
PRV
, resulting in a pronounced inhibition of
PRV
infection. Studies to elucidate the mechanism of
PRV
escape are currently in progress.