About the Authors

Miguel Stein

Affiliation Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, The E. Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel

Zalman Greenberg

Affiliation Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel

Mona Boaz

Affiliation Biostatistics Unit, The E. Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel

Zeev T. Handzel

Affiliation Pediatric Division, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel

Mesfin K. Meshesha

Affiliation Center for Tropical Diseases and AIDS, and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

Zvi Bentwich

bzvi@bgu.ac.il, zvibentwich@gmail.com

Affiliation Center for Tropical Diseases and AIDS, and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS ZTH ZB. Performed the experiments: MS ZG ZTH. Analyzed the data: MS MB ZB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS ZTH MB. Wrote the paper: MS MB MKM ZB.