About the Authors

Majid Laassri

Roles Investigation

Affiliation FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

Tatiana Zagorodnyaya

Roles Investigation

Affiliation FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

Sharon Hassin-Baer

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Movement Disorders Institute and Department of Neurology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer; and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Rachel Handsher

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Public Health Service Laboratories Israel Ministry of Health at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Danit Sofer

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Public Health Service Laboratories Israel Ministry of Health at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Merav Weil

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Public Health Service Laboratories Israel Ministry of Health at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Konstantinos Karagiannis

Roles Software

Affiliations FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Vahan Simonyan

Roles Software, Supervision

Affiliations FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Konstantin Chumakov

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

konstantin.chumakov@fda.hhs.gov

Affiliations FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Lester Shulman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Central Virology Laboratory, Public Health Service Laboratories Israel Ministry of Health at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, Dept. of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

All authors declare no conflicting interests