Evaluating artesunate monotherapy and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine as potential antimalarial options for prevaccination radical cures during future malaria vaccine field efficacy trials.

Background: In malaria vaccine clinical trials, immune responses after vaccination may be compromised due to immunosuppression caused by concurrent Plasmodium falciparum infection. This has a direct effect on the protective efficacy of the vaccine being evaluated. Therefore, parasite clearance prior to vaccination is being considered.

Increasing the visibility of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders in substance use research: A call to action.

Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA/NH/PI) are one of the most diverse racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., encompassing origins from over forty countries.

Anti-NMDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis associated with ovarian teratoma: A case series and literature review.

Autoimmune encephalitis is a group of disorders characterized by symptoms of dysfunction of the limbic and extra-limbic systems that occur in association with antibodies against intracellular antigens, synapses, or proteins located on the surface of nerve cells. Anti-NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor encephalitis was first described in 2007 and has become one of the most commonly recognized autoimmune encephalitides. The disease is predominantly female (81%) and affects young patients (37% <18 years old, 95% <45 years old), with up to 58% of women over 18 years old having ovarian teratoma.

Spatial and temporal characteristics of laboratory-induced swarms: Shape, structure, and flight kinematics.

Malaria mosquitoes mate in swarms, but how these swarms are formed and maintained remains poorly understood. We characterized three-dimensional spatiotemporal flight kinematics of males swarming at sunset above a ground marker. The location, shape, and volume of swarms were highly stereotypic, consistent over the complete swarming duration.

Factor Structure, Reliability, and Construct Validity of the Wellness Inventory.

Objective: Wellness has been associated with various general medical and mental health outcomes; however, few empirically supported measures capture the breadth of the wellness construct. The first author had previously developed the Wellness Inventory through an iterative process with key stakeholders to establish face and content validity and examined the psychometric properties of the Wellness Inventory as a tool for assessing wellness across eight dimensions.

Methods: The authors assessed the Wellness Inventory by using data from self-report online surveys in three samples of data collected from two groups of respondents: students and faculty members in a public university and behavioral health providers (N=3,446; 50% White and 43% female).