Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Human Variant of Methicillin-Resistant CC398 in Japan and Korea.

clonal complex (CC) 398 is a major clonal type of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant and comprise both a human variant and a livestock-associated variant. We have previously identified three sequence type (ST) 1232 strains from Japanese patients (THI2018-120 and N1195) and a Vietnamese patient (S36). In this study, we found an ST1232 strain in a Korean patient (BDH17) and compared the genomes of the ST1232 strains isolated in Korea and Japan.