About the Authors

Ami Neuberger

a_neuberger@rambam.health.gov.il

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine B, Rambam Medical Center and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Eyal Meltzer

Affiliation The Center for Geographic Medicine and Internal Medicine A and C, Sheba Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Eyal Leshem

Affiliation The Center for Geographic Medicine and Internal Medicine A and C, Sheba Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Yaakov Dickstein

Affiliation Internal Medicine A, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Shmuel Stienlauf

Affiliation The Center for Geographic Medicine and Internal Medicine A and C, Sheba Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Eli Schwartz

Affiliation The Center for Geographic Medicine and Internal Medicine A and C, Sheba Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AN EM EL ES. Performed the experiments: YD SS. Analyzed the data: AN SS EM ES YD. Wrote the paper: AN YD ES.