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MORAXELLA BOVIS
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Moraxella |
| Species: | Moraxella bovis |
| Description: | Gram negative rods, variable in shape (0.5-1.5 x 2.0 μm) , size and arrangement.Encapsulated. Nonmotile. The cells are often fimbriated and show “twitching motility”. |
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| Source: | Isolated from bovine keratoconjunctivitis, but has also been isolated from unaffected eyes and the nasal cavity of cattle, the eyes of sheep and mice, but not the eyes of rats, rabbits, or guinea pigs.M. bovis has been found to survive up to 3 days on insect legs. |
| Pathogenicity: | It is the most common cause of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK), an epidemic and highly contagious disease causing temporary or even permanent blindness, predominantly in calves. Pathogenicity factors: adhesins, leukotoxin, phosphoamidase, phosphatase, hyaluronidase, lipases, pili (fimbriae) production, a hemolysin or cytolysin. Experimenta infection cannot be reproduced with non-hemolytic and non-fimbriated strains.Not pathogenic for laboratory animals. |
| Genbank: | NZ_MUXV00000000.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 2.75 |
| GC %: | 43.9 |
| Genes: | 2,751 |
| CDS Number: | 2,701 |
| Reference: | Elliot Juni and Kjell Bovre: Order IX Pseudomonadales Orla-Jensen 1921, Family II Moraxellaceae Rossau, Van Landschoot, Gillis and De Ley 1991 In: Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second edition,Vol two, part B, George M. Garrity (Editor-in-Chief), pp. 411-442.,, John P. Hays. Chapter 3.3.38. The Genus Moraxella. Prokaryotes (2006) 6:958–987.,, Robert S. Breed, E. G. D. Murray, Nathan R. Smith. Genus VII. Moraxella Lwoff 1939, in Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. Seventh Edition, pp 419-421, 1957.,, Helgomar Raducanescu, Valeria Bica-Popii: Bacteriologie Veterinara (1986), 137-138. |
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