- Source: Moraxella bovis
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, referred to colloquially as pinkeye or New Forest eye. M. bovis was first associated with pinkeye in cattle 1915 in Bengal, India
The restriction enzyme MboI, widely used in biotechnology, is isolated from this species.
References
External links
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
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Moraxella bovis
- Moraxella
- M. bovis
- Moraxellaceae
- Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis
- Moraxella caprae
- Keratoconjunctivitis
- Tulathromycin
- DNA methyltransferase
- Mboi
