About the Authors
- Asaf Biber
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* E-mail: asafbib@gmail.com (AB); gregev@hsph.harvard.edu (GR-Y)
Affiliations Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Izeldeen Abuelaish
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Affiliation Global Health Division-Dala Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Galia Rahav
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Affiliation Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Meir Raz
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Affiliation Jerusalem-Hashfela District, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Modiin, Israel
- Liran Cohen
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Affiliations Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Lea Valinsky
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Affiliation Government Central Laboratories, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
- Dianna Taran
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Affiliation Central Laboratory, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Rehovot, Israel
- Aviva Goral
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Affiliations Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Abedalla Elhamdany
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Affiliation Keystone Consulting Services, Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, Palestine
- Gili Regev-Yochay
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* E-mail: asafbib@gmail.com (AB); gregev@hsph.harvard.edu (GR-Y)
Affiliations Infectious Disease Unit, Sheba Medical Center, affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Ramat Gan, Israel
- for the PICR Study Group
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¶Membership of the PICR Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: IA MR GR GRY. Performed the experiments: AB IA LC LV DT AE GRY. Analyzed the data: AB AG GRY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LV MR. Wrote the paper: AB LV GR AG GRY.