Abstract: Echinococcosis is one kind of zoonotic parasitic disease that seriously endangers public health. In view of the limitations of imaging and immunological diagnosis, many nucleic acid techniques have been developed for detecting the pathogenic echinococcus in recent years, including polymerase chain reaction(PCR), multiple-PCR, real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR(qRT-PCR) and loop-mediated isothermal amplification(LAMP). This paper summarized the progress of application of nucleic acid technique to the diagnosis of echinococcosis, together with the application value being investigated.

Key words: Echinococcosis, Nucleic acid detection, Echinococcus granulosus, Echinococcus multilocularis