• Assessing dengue fever risk in Costa Rica by using climate variables and machine learning techniques 

      Barboza Chinchilla, Luis Alberto; Chou Chen, Shu Wei; Vásquez Brenes, Paola Andrea; García Puerta, Yury Elena; Calvo Alpízar, Juan Gabriel; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Sánchez Peña, Fabio Ariel (2023-02-13)
      Dengue fever is a vector-borne disease affecting millions yearly, mostly in tropical and subtropical countries. Driven mainly by social and environmental factors, dengue incidence and geographical expansion have increased ...
    • Dengue model with early-life stage of vectors and age-structure within host 

      Sánchez Peña, Fabio Ariel; Calvo Alpízar, Juan Gabriel (2019-12)
      We construct an epidemic model for the transmission of dengue fever with an early-life stage in the vector dynamics and age-structure within hosts. The early-life stage of the vector is modeled via a general function that ...
    • Transmission dynamics of Dengue in Costa Rica: The role of hospitalizations 

      Sánchez Peña, Fabio Ariel; Arroyo Esquivel, Jorge; Vásquez Brenes, Paola Andrea (2019-12)
      For decades, dengue virus has caused major problems for public health officials in tropical and subtropical countries around the world. We construct a compartmental model that includes the role of hospitalized individuals ...