About the Authors

Suheir Ereqat

sereqat@med.alquds.edu (SE); bargal@agri.huji.ac.il (GKBG)

Affiliations Al-Quds Nutrition and Health Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Quds University, Abu-Deis, the West Bank, Palestinian Authority, The Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Abedelmajeed Nasereddin

Affiliation Al-Quds Nutrition and Health Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Quds University, Abu-Deis, the West Bank, Palestinian Authority

Hagai Levine

Affiliation Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel

Kifaya Azmi

Affiliation Al-Quds Nutrition and Health Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Quds University, Abu-Deis, the West Bank, Palestinian Authority

Amer Al-Jawabreh

Affiliation Al-Quds Nutrition and Health Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Quds University, Abu-Deis, the West Bank, Palestinian Authority

Charles L. Greenblatt

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Ziad Abdeen

Affiliation Al-Quds Nutrition and Health Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Quds University, Abu-Deis, the West Bank, Palestinian Authority

Gila Kahila Bar-Gal

sereqat@med.alquds.edu (SE); bargal@agri.huji.ac.il (GKBG)

Affiliation The Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SE AAJ CLG. Performed the experiments: SE KA. Analyzed the data: SE AN HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZA GKBG. Wrote the paper: SE.