“…Whereas, sheep were G1 (80%) and G3 (20%). Mustafa et al, (2019), AL-Asadi et al, (2021), Muhaidi et al, (2017, Muhaidi et al, (2018) identified E.granulosus in terms of ND1 gene as G1 genotype sheep strain (100%). The Iraqi isolates are consistent with the isolates of other countries, such as, Turkey (Barazesh et al, 2019), Iran (Barazesh et al 2019;Hajialilo et al, 2012;Pezeshki et al, 2013;Sharbatkhori et al, 2016), Sudan (Ahmed et al, 2018), Egypt (Amer et al, 2015), Uzbekistan (Kim et al, 2020), Peru (Sánchez et al 2012;Sánchez et al, 2010) and China (Ohiolei et al, 2019).…”