| ASF | African swine fever |
| ASFV | African swine fever virus |
| OIE | The World Organization for Animal Health |
| MGF | Multigene families |
| MARA | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China |
| CSF | Classical Swine Fever |
| HRP | High-risk periods |
| TADs | Transboundary animal diseases |
| DIVA | Differentiating infected from vaccinated animals |
| LAVs | Live attenuated vaccines |
| FACS | Fluorescence-activated cells sorting |
| PBMs | Peripheral blood monocytes |
| WSL-R | Spontaneously immortalized wild boar cell line |
| COS-7/COS-1 | A monkey cell line transformed with the large antigen of SV40 |
| PAMs | Pulmonary alveolar macrophage |
| CTL | Cytotoxic T lymphocyte |
| SLA-II | Swine leukocyte antigen II |
| ORFs | Open reading frames |
| ADE | Antibody-dependent enhancement |
| MVA | Modified vaccinia virus Ankara |
| VACV | Vaccinia virus |
| r Ad | Recombinant adenoviruses |