“…This phenomenon resembles the BA genotype with a 60‐nucleotide duplication in the HVR2 of subgroup B [Trento et al, ]. Since its discovery, ON1 has spread globally and has been found mainly in Canada [Eshaghi et al, ], USA [Avadhanula et al, ], China [Cui et al, ], Korea [Kim et al, ], Japan [Tsukagoshi et al, ], Thailand [Auksornkitti et al, ], India [Choudhary et al, ], Malaysia [Khor et al, ], Germany [Prifert et al, ], Spain [Trento et al, ], Italy [Pierangeli et al, ], Latvia [Balmaks et al, ], Croatia [Ivancic‐Jelecki et al, ], Kenya [Agoti et al, ], Panama [Trento et al, ], Philippines, Peru, and South Africa [Pretorius et al, ]. The distribution together with global and local transmission dynamics of ON1 has also been reported recently [Duvvuri et al, ].…”