About the Authors

Tomer Avni

tomerav@clalit.org.il

Affiliation Medicine E, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tikva, Israel and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Adi Lador

Affiliation Medicine E, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tikva, Israel and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Shaul Lev

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tikva, Israel and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Leonard Leibovici

Affiliation Medicine E, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tikva, Israel and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Mical Paul

Affiliation Infectious diseases Unit, Rambam Medical Center and Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Tehnion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Alon Grossman

Affiliation Medicine E, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tikva, Israel and 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: TA. Performed the experiments: TA AL SL LL MP AG. Analyzed the data: TA AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TA. Wrote the paper: TA.