About the Authors

Orly Aziz-Boaron

Affiliation Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Keren Leibovitz

Affiliation Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Boris Gelman

Affiliation Kimron Veterinary Institute, Beit-Dagan, Israel

Maor Kedmi

Affiliation Hachaklait Veterinary Services Ltd., Ceasarea, Israel

Eyal Klement

eyal.klement@gmail.com

Affiliation Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. They would also like to clarify that the 'Hachaklait' is not a commercial company. It is a non-profit veterinary organization owned by the farmers who receive the service from it. 'Hachaklait' is not involved in the development of this vaccine and does not market the vaccine to farmers other than providing it to the farmers that own it. Additionally, Dr. MK was involved in this study as a student in Prof. EK's lab and not as an affiliate of the 'Hachaklait'. For these reasons Dr. MK has no conflict of interest in this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OAB KL BG MK EK. Performed the experiments: OAB KL MK EK. Analyzed the data: OA KL EK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BG. Wrote the manuscript: OAB EK.