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ASF has been raging in China for 3 years, and recently EP402R-deleted ASFV strains emerged, showing sub-acute or chronic symptoms in pigs and providing novel difficulties to monitor and control the disease as EP402R-deleted strains possess no hemadsorption (HAD) ability. In addition, the gene deletion virus with low viral load is prone to results retest or false negative due to the high cycle threshold (Ct) value under the current real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection method. Thus, a new method is needed to detect and distinguish wild strains and gene-deleted viruses. In this study, a duplex droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) assay based on the ASFV B646L and EP402R genes was established and showed good linearity (R<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> &amp;gt; 0.99). The limit of detection for duplex ddPCR was 52 copies per reaction and 8.6 copies per reaction for B646L and EP402R, respectively. No cross-reaction with other porcine viruses [classical swine fever virus (CSFV), porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), porcine parvovirus (PPV), Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), and porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2)] was identified by this assay. In addition, 44 ASFV-suspicious clinical samples as well as EP402R-deleted ASFV were tested in parallel by duplex real-time PCR and ddPCR, indicative of a higher sensitivity which belonged to the duplex ddPCR assay. 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