About the Authors

Efrat Sharvit

Contributed equally to this work with: Efrat Sharvit, Shirley Abramovitch

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel, Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Dana Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Shirley Abramovitch

Contributed equally to this work with: Efrat Sharvit, Shirley Abramovitch

Affiliation Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Dana Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Shimon Reif

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel, Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Dana Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Rafael Bruck

rafib@tlvmc.gov.il

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel, 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: ES SA SR RB. Performed the experiments: ES SA. Analyzed the data: ES SA SR RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ES SA. Wrote the manuscript: ES.