About the Authors

Israel Hershkovitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Israel Hershkovitz, Helen D. Donoghue

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Helen D. Donoghue

Contributed equally to this work with: Israel Hershkovitz, Helen D. Donoghue

h.donoghue@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

David E. Minnikin

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Gurdyal S. Besra

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Oona Y-C. Lee

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Angela M. Gernaey

Current address: None available. AMG was affiliated with the University of Salford until April 30, 2007.

Affiliation Biosciences Research Institute, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

Ehud Galili

Affiliation Marine Archaeology Branch, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel

Vered Eshed

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Charles L. Greenblatt

Affiliation Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Eshetu Lemma

Current address: Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Affiliation Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Gila Kahila Bar-Gal

Affiliation Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Mark Spigelman

Affiliations Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IH HDD DEM GSB AMG EG CLG GKBG MS. Performed the experiments: IH HDD OYCL AMG EG VE CLG EL GKBG. Analyzed the data: IH HDD DEM GSB AMG EG VE EL GKBG MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GSB. Wrote the paper: IH HDD MS.