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We developed DENcode, a framework to estimate the relative likelihood of vector-mediated transmission between pairs of dengue cases by combining a temperature- and time-modulated epidemiological kernel, which captures the extrinsic incubation period and human infectiousness, with a phylogenetically informed genetic similarity kernel derived from patristic distances between viral haplotypes or consensus sequences. Validation with a real-life dataset of 90 dengue infections sampled from Colombo, Sri Lanka between 2017 \u2013 2020 and sequenced to resolve within-host haplotypes, DENcode estimates were stable across 100 Monte Carlo iterations, yielding narrow credible intervals (median width &lt;0.001) and consistent top-ranked transmission pairs. Sensitivity analyses using ablation experiments showed that removing either the genetic or epidemiological component substantially altered the distribution of linkage probabilities, indicating that both contribute meaningfully to the inferred transmission structure. Serotype-specific transmission networks constructed from pairwise linkage probabilities from DENcode were analysed using degree- and path-based centrality measures at probability thresholds of 0.1 and 0.5, revealing relative importance of cases to disease transmission within the community. Haplotype-derived networks were more informative than consensus-based networks (x 3.6 and x 1.6 times more edges for DENV2 and 3 respectively). 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