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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science| Species/Subspecies: | Moraxella bovoculi | |||||||||
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| Etymology: | Genus name: named after the Swiss ophthalmologist V. Morax. Species epithet: from the eye of cow. | |||||||||
| Significance: | [Important] | |||||||||
| Taxonomy: | Class Gammaproteobacteria Order Pseudomonadales Family Moraxellaceae Genus Moraxella |
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| Type Strain: | ATCC BAA-1259T=CCUG 52049T | |||||||||
| Macromorphology (smell): | Small, dry colonies (1-2 mm in diameter). | |||||||||
| Micromorphology: | Small nonmotile coccoid rods (1.0-1.5 x 1.5-2.5 µm), which are sometimes approaching the shape of cocci (0.6-1.0 µm in diameter). | |||||||||
| Gram +/Gram -: | G- | |||||||||
| Metabolism: | Aerobic | |||||||||
| Catalase/Oxidase: | (+)/+ | |||||||||
| Fermentation of carbohydrates: | Members of the genus Moraxella does not ferment carbohydrates. | |||||||||
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| Disease: | infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis
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| 16S rRNA Seq.: | - | |||||||||
| Taxonomy/phylogeny: | About 25 species have been described within genus Moraxella and these species are related to members of the genus Acinetobacter. | |||||||||
| Updated: | 2026-01-09 |
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