“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

Table 3 Final multivariate model (GLMM) of factors associated with recent dengue infection among 4856 children aged 3–9 years

Variable	OR	95%CI
Fish present in at least one container	0.64	0.45–0.91
Living in a rural area	0.57	0.45–0.71
3–5 years of age	0.65	0.51–0.83

The initial saturated model also included: educational level of household head, belonging to the Oportunidades ^* programme, and presence of temephos (less than 2 months old) in at least one container
^* Oportunidades, now called Prospera, is a Mexican government programme of cash transfers to mothers to encourage them to send their children to school and to health centres.

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