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Table. 2 Snail abundance and trematode infections per site. All snail species are listed per site along with the number of specimens collected (Sampled), the number of snails that shed cercariae in the shedding experiment (Shedding), the number of snails for which DNA was extracted for diagnostic multiplex PCRs (Tested), the number of samples that tested positive for a trematode infection (Trematoda inf.), and how many of those trematode infections had a Fasciola nyanzae (F. nyanzae inf.), Schistosoma edwardiense (S. edwardiense inf.), or Schistosoma haematobium infection (S. haematobium inf.). For Kariba sites, the number between brackets refers to exact sample location adopted from Carolus et al. [5]. High-resolution pictures of each snail morphotype are shown in Fig. 5

From: Invasive snails, parasite spillback, and potential parasite spillover drive parasitic diseases of Hippopotamus amphibius in artificial lakes of Zimbabwe

Site

Species

Sampled

Shedding

Tested

Trematoda inf.

F. nyanzae inf.

S. edwardiense inf.

S. haematobium inf.

Kariba (3)

Pseudosuccinea columella

60

6

24

21

21

0

0

Kariba (3)

Radix aff. plicatula

12

0

12

3

1

0

0

Kariba (16)

Pseudosuccinea columella

43

0

24

24

24

0

0

Mwenje

Radix natalensis

17

0

17

13

11

0

0

Mwenje

Biomphalaria pfeifferi

6

0

6

6

0

3a

0

Mwenje

Bulinus sp.

1

0

1

1

0

1

0

Mwenje

Bulinus globosus

9

0

9

9

0

6

1

  1. aOne more B. pfeifferi showed infection signals indicating a Schistosoma sp. infection but no sequences could be obtained, inhibiting species identification