PUBLICATIONS

Explore our recent publications in peer-reviewed journals covering mathematical modeling, statistics, computational biology, and public health.

PLOS One

J. Calvo-Monge, B. Espinoza, F. Sanchez, J. Arroyo-Esquivel

Interplay between Foraging Choices and Population Growth Dynamics

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2025

IEEE International Conference on Bioinspired Processing

C. Soto-Rojas, C. Garita, M. Abdalah, J.G. Calvo, F. Sanchez, E. Meneses

Preliminary analysis of socioeconomic variable correlation with geospatial modeling in Costa Rica dengue epidemics

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2024

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

J. Calvo-Monge, J. Arroyo-Esquivel, A. Gehman, F. Sanchez

Source-Sink Dynamics in a Two-Patch SI Epidemic Model with Life Stages and No Recovery from Infection

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2024

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

S.W. Chou-Chen, L.A. Barboza, P. Vásquez, Y.E. García, J.G. Calvo, H.G. Hidalgo, F. Sanchez

Bayesian spatio-temporal model with INLA for dengue fever risk prediction in Costa Rica

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2023

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Y.E. García, S.W. Chou-Chen, L.A. Barboza, M.L. Daza-Torres, J.C. Montesinos-Lopez, P. Vásquez, J.G. Calvo, M. Nuno, F. Sanchez

Common patterns between dengue cases, climate, and local environmental variables in Costa Rica: A wavelet approach

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2023

Infectious Disease Modelling

J. Calvo-Monge, F. Sanchez, J.G. Calvo, D. Mena

A nonlinear relapse model with disaggregated contact rates: Analysis of a forward-backward bifurcation

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2023

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

L.A. Barboza, S.W. Chou-Chen, P. Vásquez, Y.E. García, J.G. Calvo, H.G. Hidalgo, F. Sanchez

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

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2024

Journal of Biological Dynamics

F. Sanchez, J. Arroyo-Esquivel, J.G. Calvo

A mathematical model with nonlinear relapse: conditions for a forward-backward bifurcation

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2023

Revista Panamericana de la Salud

P. Vásquez, F. Sanchez, L.A. Barboza, Y.E. García, J.G. Calvo, S.W. Chou-Chen, G. Mery

Mathematical and statistical models for the control of mosquito-borne diseases: the experience of Costa Rica

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2023

Scientific Reports

Y.E. García, G. Mery, P. Vásquez, J.G. Calvo, L. Barboza, T. Rivas, F. Sanchez

Projecting the impact of COVID-19 variants and vaccination strategies in Costa Rica

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2022

Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering

J.G. Calvo, F. Sanchez, L. Barboza, Y.E. García, P. Vásquez

An implementation of a multilayer network model for the Covid-19 pandemic: A Costa Rica study

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2022

Epidemics

F. Sanchez, J.G. Calvo, G. Mery, Y.E. García, P. Vásquez, L. Barboza, M.D. Pérez, T. Rivas

Projecting the impact of COVID-19 variants and vaccination strategies in Costa Rica

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2022

Life

J.C. Montesinos-Lopez, M.L. Daza-Torres, Y.E. García, L.A. Barboza, F. Sanchez, A.J. Schmidt, B.H. Pollock, M. Nuno

The Role of SARS-CoV-2 Testing on Hospitalizations in California

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2021

Epidemiologia

L. Barboza, P. Vásquez, G. Mery, F. Sanchez, Y.E. García, J.G. Calvo, T. Rivas, M.D. Pérez, D. Salas

The Role of Mobility and Sanitary Measures on the Delay of Community Transmission of COVID-19 in Costa Rica

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2021

Revista de Matemática: Teoría y Aplicaciones

J.G. Calvo, A. Hernández, M. Porter, F. Sanchez

A Two-Patch Epidemic Model with Nonlinear Reinfection

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2019

Revista de Matemática: Teoría y Aplicaciones

P. Vásquez, A. Loría, F. Sanchez, L. Barboza

Climate-Driven Statistical Models as Effective Predictors of Local Dengue Incidence in Costa Rica: A Generalized Additive Model and Random Forest Approach

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2019

Revista de Matemática: Teoría y Aplicaciones

F. Sanchez, P. Vásquez, J. Arroyo-Esquivel

Transmission Dynamics of Dengue in Costa Rica:The Role of Hospitalizations

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2019

Revista de Matemática: Teoría y Aplicaciones

F. Sanchez, J.G. Calvo

Dengue model with early-life stage of vectors and age-structure within host

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2019

Computers & Mathematics with Applications

F. Sanchez, J.G. Calvo, E. Segura, Z. Feng

A partial differential equation model with age-structure and nonlinear recidivism: Conditions for a backward bifurcation and a general numerical implementation

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2019

Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering

F. Sanchez, L. Barboza, P. Vásquez

Parameter estimates of the 2016-2017 Zika outbreak in Costa Rica: an approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) approach

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2019

Revista de Matemática: Teoría y Aplicaciones

F. Sanchez, J.G. Calvo

The role of short-term immigration on disease dynamics: an SIR model with age-structure

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2019

Mathematical Biosciences

J. Arroyo-Esquivel, F. Sanchez, L.A. Barboza

Infection model for analyzing biological control of coffee rust using bacterial anti-fungal compounds

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2019

Ricerche di Matematica

F. Sanchez, L.A. Barboza, D. Burton, A. Cintrón-Arias

Comparative analysis of dengue versus chikungunya outbreaks in Costa Rica

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2018

Letters in Biomathematics

D. Murillo, S. Holechek, A.L. Murillo, F. Sanchez, C. Castillo-Chavez

Vertical transmission in a two-strain model of dengue fever

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2014

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