About the Authors

Hagai Levine

Contributed equally to this work with: Hagai Levine, Ran D. Balicer

hlevine@hadassah.org.il

Affiliations Medical Corps, Israel Defence Force, Tel HaShomer, Israel, Braun Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Ran D. Balicer

Contributed equally to this work with: Hagai Levine, Ran D. Balicer

Affiliations Medical Corps, Israel Defence Force, Tel HaShomer, Israel, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Salman Zarka

Affiliations Medical Corps, Israel Defence Force, Tel HaShomer, Israel, School of Public Health, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

Tamar Sela

Affiliation Medical Corps, Israel Defence Force, Tel HaShomer, Israel

Vladislav Rozhavski

Affiliation Medical Corps, Israel Defence Force, Tel HaShomer, Israel

Daniel Cohen

Affiliation School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Raid Kayouf

Affiliation Medical Corps, Israel Defence Force, Tel HaShomer, Israel

Ruhama Ambar

Affiliation Medical Corps, Israel Defence Force, Tel HaShomer, Israel

Nurith Porat

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Ron Dagan

Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL RDB RD. Performed the experiments: HL RDB SZ TS RK RA NP. Analyzed the data: HL RDB VR DC RD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NP TS RA. Wrote the paper: HL.