Streptococcus pneumoniae Carriage in the Gaza Strip

• Gili Regev-Yochay ,

  * E-mail: gregev@hsph.harvard.edu

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology Research, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Izzeldin Abullaish,

  Affiliations Gertner Institute for Epidemiology Research, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Toronto University, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, British Columbia, Canada

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• Richard Malley,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Bracha Shainberg,

  Affiliation Central Laboratory, Macabbi Healthcare Services, Rehovot, Israel

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• Miriam Varon,

  Affiliation Jerusalem-Hashfela District, Macabbi Healthcare Services, Modiin, Israel

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• Yulia Roytman,

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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• Arnona Ziv,

  Affiliation Gertner Institute for Epidemiology Research, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Aviva Goral,

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology Research, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Abedallah Elhamdany,

  Affiliation Keystone Consulting Agency, Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories

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• Galia Rahav,

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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• Meir Raz,

  Affiliation Jerusalem-Hashfela District, Macabbi Healthcare Services, Modiin, Israel

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• for the Palestinian-Israeli Collaborative Research (PICR) study group