About the Authors

Elli Rosenberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Elli Rosenberg, Amir Ben-Shmuel, Yaakov Pollack

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Amir Ben-Shmuel

Contributed equally to this work with: Elli Rosenberg, Amir Ben-Shmuel, Yaakov Pollack

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Oshrit Shalev

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Rosa Sinay

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Alan Cowman

Affiliation Department of Infection and Immunity, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

Yaakov Pollack

Contributed equally to this work with: Elli Rosenberg, Amir Ben-Shmuel, Yaakov Pollack

polak@bgu.ac.il

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 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: ER ABS YP. Performed the experiments: ER ABS OS RS. Analyzed the data: ER ABS OS AFC YP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AFC. Wrote the paper: ER YP.