Moraxella bovis

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Moraxella bovis
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Pseudomonadales
Family: Moraxellaceae
Genus: Moraxella
Species:
M. bovis
Binomial name
Moraxella bovis
(Hauduroy et al. 1937) Murray 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)

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] M. bovis has been observed as an opportunistic pathogen in humans. [5]

The restriction enzyme MboI, widely used in biotechnology, is isolated from this species. [6]

References

  1. ↑ George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology . 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria
  2. ↑ "Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis in Animals - Eye Diseases and Disorders".
  3. ↑ "Moraxella bovis - microbewiki".
  4. ↑ Mitter, SN (1915). "Contagious ophthalmia among cattle". Veterinary Journal. 71: 28–29.
  5. ↑ Bogdanović, R.; Marjanović, B.; Nikolić, B.; Ognjanović, M.; Marković, M.; Djordjević, M.; Sindjić, M. (July 1996). "Shunt nephritis associated with Moraxella bovis". Acta Paediatrica (Oslo, Norway: 1992). 85 (7): 882–883. doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.1996.tb14174.x. ISSN   0803-5253. PMID   8819561.
  6. ↑ 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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