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However, the extent to which wild mammals act as reservoirs for<jats:italic>Schistosoma mansoni<\/jats:italic>and therefore as sources of renewed transmission following control efforts is poorly understood. With the objective to study the role of small mammals as reservoir hosts, 480 animals belonging to 9 rodent and 1 insectivore species were examined for infection with schistosomes in Kisumu, in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya. Animals were collected from 2 sites: near the lakeshore and from Nyabera Marsh draining into the lake. A total of 6\u00b70% of the animals captured, including 5 murid rodent species and 1 species of shrew (<jats:italic>Crocidura olivieri<\/jats:italic>) were infected with schistosomes. Four schistosome species were recovered and identified using<jats:italic>cox<\/jats:italic>1 DNA barcoding:<jats:italic>S. mansoni<\/jats:italic>,<jats:italic>S. bovis<\/jats:italic>,<jats:italic>S. rodhaini<\/jats:italic>and<jats:italic>S. kisumuensis<\/jats:italic>, the latter of which was recently described from Nyabera Marsh.<jats:italic>Schistosoma mansoni<\/jats:italic>and<jats:italic>S. rodhaini<\/jats:italic>were found infecting the same host individual (<jats:italic>Lophuromys flavopunctatus<\/jats:italic>), suggesting that this host species could be responsible for the production of hybrid schistosomes found in the area. Although the prevalence of<jats:italic>S. mansoni<\/jats:italic>infection in these reservoir populations was low (1\u00b75%), given their potentially vast population size, their impact on transmission needs further study. 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