About the Authors

Anna Brestovitsky

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Brestovitsky, Keren Nebenzahl-Sharon

Current address: Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Britain

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Keren Nebenzahl-Sharon

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Brestovitsky, Keren Nebenzahl-Sharon

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Peter Kechker

Current address: Central Microbiology Laboratory Haifa and Western Galilee, Clalit Health Services, Nesher, Israel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Rakefet Sharf

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Tamar Kleinberger

tamark@tx.technion.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB KNS TK. Performed the experiments: AB KNS PK RS. Analyzed the data: AB KNS TK RS. Wrote the paper: TK.