About the Authors

Yulia Schindler

Contributed equally to this work with: Yulia Schindler, Galia Rahav

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Microbiology laboratory, Maayaney Hayeshua, Bney Brak, Israel, The Sackler School of medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Galia Rahav

Contributed equally to this work with: Yulia Schindler, Galia Rahav

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Sackler School of medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hahomer, Israel

Israel Nissan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hahomer, Israel, Infectious Disease Unit, Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel

Liora Madar-Shapiro

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Microbiology laboratory, Maayaney Hayeshua, Bney Brak, Israel

Julia Abtibol

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Microbiology laboratory, Maayaney Hayeshua, Bney Brak, Israel

Moti Ravid

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Microbiology laboratory, Maayaney Hayeshua, Bney Brak, Israel, The Sackler School of medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Yasmin Maor

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yasminm@wmc.gov.il, yasmin.maor@gmail.com

Affiliations The Sackler School of medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, National Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health (Israel), Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this paper declare the following competing interests: YM and GR received consultant and lecture fees from Pfizer, MSD, Gilead and Astellas. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.