Moraxella bovis

Moraxella bovis is a Gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive diplococcus implicated in infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, an eye disease of cattle,[1][2] also colloquially known as pinkeye or New Forest eye.[3] M.bovis was first associated with cattle pinkeye in 1915 in Bengal, India[4]

Moraxella bovis
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M. bovis
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Moraxella bovis

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

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. https://www.merckvetmanual.com/eye-and-ear/infectious-keratoconjunctivitis/overview-of-infectious-keratoconjunctivitis
  3. https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Moraxella_bovis
  4. Mitter, SN (1915). "Contagious ophthalmia among cattle". Veterinary Journal. 71: 28–29.
  5. 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.


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