The invention belongs to the technical field of 
biology, and particularly relates to application of an eEF1D 
protein in preparation of a 
medicine for preventing or treating foot-and-mouth 
disease virus infection. The invention finds that the expression of the eEF1D mRNA is increased and the content of the eEF1D 
protein is reduced after the foot-and-mouth 
disease virus infection, namely, the eEF1DmRNA and the eEF1D 
protein can be used as detection markers for the foot-and-mouth 
disease virus infection and are used for evaluating whether the foot-and-mouth disease virus infection occurs or not;secondly, the eEF1D protein can remarkably reduce the 
structural protein VP1 of the foot-and-mouth disease virus, the expression of mRNA of the foot-and-mouth disease virus and the 
titer of the foot-and-mouth disease virus, remarkably inhibits the replication of the foot-and-mouth disease virus, and can be used for preventing or treating the infection of the foot-and-mouth disease virus; and finally, after knocking down the eEF1D protein, the expression of the foot-and-mouth disease virus 
structural protein VP1 is promoted, and the expression of the foot-and-mouth disease virus mRNA and the virus 
titer are improved. Therefore, the eEF1D protein can be knocked down in a production 
cell strain through a 
genetic engineering means, and a 
cell line with better performance than that of the foot-and-mouth disease 
virus vaccine produced by the existing production 
cell line is obtained and is used for producing foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccines.