Moraxella bovis is a Gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive rod-shaped bacterium. It is the cause of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, a contagious ocular disease of cattle,[1][2] referred to colloquially as pinkeye or New Forest eye.[3] M. bovis was first associated with pinkeye in cattle 1915 in Bengal, India[4]
| Moraxella bovis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Pseudomonadales |
| Family: | Moraxellaceae |
| Genus: | Moraxella |
| Species: | M. bovis
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| Binomial name | |
| Moraxella bovis (Hauduroy et al. 1937) Murray 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)
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The restriction enzyme MboI, widely used in biotechnology, is isolated from this species.[5]
References
edit- ^ George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Par`t B: The Gammaproteobacteria
- ^ "Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis in Animals - Eye Diseases and Disorders".
- ^ "Moraxella bovis - microbewiki".
- ^ Mitter, SN (1915). "Contagious ophthalmia among cattle". Veterinary Journal. 71: 28–29.
- ^ Dreiseikelmann, Brigitte; Eichenlaub, Rudolf; Wackernagel, Wilfried (1979). "The effect of differential methylation by Escherichia coli of plasmid DNA and phage T7 and λ DNA on the cleavage by restriction endonuclease MboI from Moraxella bovis". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis. 562 (3): 418–428. doi:10.1016/0005-2787(79)90105-9. PMID 378259.
External links
edit- Pink-eye in Beef Cattle - Department of Primary Industries
- Type strain of Moraxella bovis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
- Culturing pinkeye lesions: Moraxella bovis vs. Moraxella ovis
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