About the Authors

Gili Aviv

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations The Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Laura Elpers

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Abt. Mikrobiologie, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Svetlana Mikhlin

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Biovac Ltd., Or-Akiva, Israel

Helit Cohen

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation The Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

Shaul Vitman Zilber

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Biovac Ltd., Or-Akiva, Israel

Guntram A. Grassl

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Galia Rahav

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations The Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Michael Hensel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Abt. Mikrobiologie, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Ohad Gal-Mor

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Ohad.Gal-Mor@sheba.health.gov.il

Affiliations The Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: SM and SVZ are employed by Biovac Ltd. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.