Moraxella bovis

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| genus = Moraxella

| species = bovis

| authority = (Hauduroy et al. 1937) Murray 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)

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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,George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Par`t B: The Gammaproteobacteria{{Cite web|url=https://www.merckvetmanual.com/eye-and-ear/infectious-keratoconjunctivitis/overview-of-infectious-keratoconjunctivitis|title = Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis in Animals - Eye Diseases and Disorders}} referred to colloquially as pinkeye or New Forest eye.{{Cite web|url=https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Moraxella_bovis|title = Moraxella bovis - microbewiki}} M. bovis was first associated with pinkeye in cattle 1915 in Bengal, India{{cite journal |last1=Mitter |first1=SN |title=Contagious ophthalmia among cattle |journal=Veterinary Journal |date=1915 |volume=71 |pages=28–29}}

The restriction enzyme MboI, widely used in biotechnology, is isolated from this species.{{cite journal |last1=Dreiseikelmann|first1=Brigitte|last2=Eichenlaub|first2=Rudolf|last3=Wackernagel|first3=Wilfried|title=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 |journal = Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis|date=1979|volume=562|issue=3|pages=418–428|doi=10.1016/0005-2787(79)90105-9|pmid=378259}}