In Latin America, the number of cases and deaths in 2023 was the highest ever recorded. We report on a patient who had been infected with dengue virus during his stay in Costa Rica in September 2023, and developed the disease after returning to Japan. Plasma obtained from the patient was ...
Dengue is prevalent throughout the tropics and subtropics. Outbreaks have occurred recently in the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Cuba, and in Paraguay in South America, and Costa Rica in Central America. Because dengue fever is caused by a virus, there is no spe...
Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. The event targeted post-graduate students, laboratory technicians, and health practitioners in universities and laboratories across the Americas and was based on the principles of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)38. Details on the program can...
To carry out the training, we used the tools Jupyter NoteBook, Google Collab (Python 3.10.12), Sklearn 1.3.2, RStudio 4.3.3, and the predictoR package 3.0.10 developed by Promidat of the Autonomous University of Central America in Costa Rica, which offers a wide range of machine-...
These two components, autocorrelation and weather or climate, form the basis for a wide variety of efforts to predict dengue incidence in countries such as Australia11, Bangladesh12, Barbados13, Brazil14,15,16,17, Colombia18,19,20, Costa Rica21, China22, Ecuador23, Guadeloupe24, India25, In...