For E. shiquicus, significantly more infections were detected using nad1 primers than with cox1 (χ2 = 10.480, df = 1, P = 0.001), whereas the use of cox1 primers detected more E. multilocularis infections than with nad1 (χ2 = 7.415, df = 1, P = 0.006). Here, MT-ND1 is linked to infection.