About the Authors

Shirin Elhaik-Goldman

Contributed equally to this work with: Shirin Elhaik-Goldman, Daniel Kafka

Affiliations The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Daniel Kafka

Contributed equally to this work with: Shirin Elhaik-Goldman, Daniel Kafka

Affiliations The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Rami Yossef

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Uzi Hadad

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Moshe Elkabets

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Alexandra Vallon-Eberhard

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Luai Hulihel

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Steffen Jung

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Hormas Ghadially

Affiliation The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Alex Braiman

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Ron N. Apte

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Ofer Mandelboim

Affiliation The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Ron Dagan

Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Yaffa Mizrachi-Nebenzahl

Affiliations The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Angel Porgador

angel@bgu.ac.il

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP YM-N. Performed the experiments: SE-G DK LH AV-E HG. Analyzed the data: SE-G DK UH ME HG AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RY SJ AB RNA OM RD. Wrote the paper: SE-G AP.