Table 3.

Publications found in the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health (NCBI-PubMed) reporting the standardisation of the LAMP technique as a useful tool for diagnosing echinococcosis in the definitive host.

Parasite	Gene	Extracted/spiked/natural DNA	Sample	Sample Size	Sensitivity	Reference
E. granulosus complex	cox1	All of them	Protoscoleces/dog faeces/faeces collected from the environment	Dog faeces: 5 Faeces collected from the environment: 61	10–100 fg	[42]
E. granulosus complex	nad1	Natural DNA	Hydatid cysts containing protoscoleces and associated germinal layers	100	10 fg	[41]
E. granulosus complex	nad1	Diluted protoscolex or egg lysate and natural DNA	Protoscolex or eggs	60	1/50 of a single protoscolex or egg	[43]
E. multilocularis	Mitochondrial nad5	Extracted/ natural DNA	Protoscolex tissue/dog faeces	189	1 pg	[44]
E. granulosus	Mitochondrial nad5	Extracted and natural DNA	Isolates and faecal samples from dogs	190	10 pg	[45]
E. granulosus	Repeat region sequence	Spiked DNA	Protoscoleces recovered from affected sheep livers	-	1 pg/200 mg faeces	[46]