1. Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
2. Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
3. Surveillance and Pathogenomics Israeli Centre of Excellence, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
4. Department of Periodontology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
5. Central Laboratories, Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
6. Reference Microbiology Services, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom
7. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre, Zerifin, Israel
8. Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany