"Where we put little fish in the water there are no mosquitoes:" a cross-sectional study on biological control of the Aedes aegypti vector in 90 coastal-region communities of Guerrero, Mexico

• Main Authors: Arcadio Morales-Pérez (Author), Elizabeth Nava-Aguilera (Author), José Legorreta-Soberanis (Author), Antonio Juan Cortés-Guzmán (Author), Alejandro Balanzar-Martínez (Author), Eva Harris (Author), Josefina Coloma (Author), Víctor M. Alvarado-Castro (Author), Mónica Violeta Bonilla-Leon (Author), Liliana Morales-Nava (Author), Robert J. Ledogar (Author), Anne Cockcroft (Author), Neil Andersson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In the Mexican state of Guerrero, some households place fish in water storage containers to prevent the development of mosquito larvae. Studies have shown that larvivorous fish reduce larva count in household water containers, but there is a lack of evidence about whether the use...