“…Clones of MRSA identified from fish and fishery products either by spa typing or MLST or other typing methods were ST8‐t1767 in retail ready‐to‐eat raw fish (sashimi) collected from the Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima (Hammad et al., ); STNew‐t15669, ST5‐t311, ST88‐t186, ST8‐t121, ST5‐t002, ST5‐t334, ST6‐t711, and ST1‐t127 in India (Murugadas, Toms, Reethu, & Lalitha, ; Murugadas, Joseph, & Lalitha ); ST1 and ST39 in India (Sivaraman, Vanik, Visnuvinayagam, Prasad, & Ravishankar, ; Sivaraman, Vanik, Visnuvinayagam, Prasad, Murugadas, et al., ); and ST72 and ST1 in Korea (Rhee & Woo, ). Several pulsotypes including cluster E type were identified in MRSA from meat and fish (Cho et al., ; Siriken, Yildirim, Güney, Erol, & Durupinar, ). However, extensive studies were not reported on determining the clonal nature of the MRSA found in seafood.…”