Moraxella bovis explained

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]

The restriction enzyme MboI, widely used in biotechnology, is isolated from this species.^[5]

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

Notes and References

1. George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Par`t B: The Gammaproteobacteria
2. Web site: Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis in Animals - Eye Diseases and Disorders.
3. Web site: Moraxella bovis - microbewiki.
4. Mitter . SN . Contagious ophthalmia among cattle . Veterinary Journal . 1915 . 71 . 28–29.
5. Dreiseikelmann. Brigitte. Eichenlaub. Rudolf. Wackernagel. Wilfried. 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. 1979. 562. 3. 418–428. 10.1016/0005-2787(79)90105-9. 378259.