About the Authors
- Liora Regev
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Contributed equally to this work with: Liora Regev, Tal Meningher
Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel
- Tal Meningher
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Contributed equally to this work with: Liora Regev, Tal Meningher
Affiliations Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Musa Hindiyeh
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Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel
- Ella Mendelson
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Affiliations Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Michal Mandelboim
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* E-mail: michalman@sheba.health.gov.il
Affiliation Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MM. Performed the experiments: LR TM MH. Analyzed the data: LR TM EM MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LR TM MH EM MM. Wrote the paper: MM. Performed the molecular analysis: LR. Did the phylogenetic analysis and statistcs: TM. Provided critical help and reagents: MH. Supervised the research: EM MM.