Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Department of

 

Date of this Version

2016

Citation

Dickey et al. Vet Res (2016) 47:31, DOI 10.1186/s13567-016-0316-2.

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Copyright © 2016 Dickey et al. Used by permission.

Abstract

Moraxella bovoculi is a recently described bacterium that is associated with infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK) or “pinkeye” in cattle. In this study, closed circularized genomes were generated for seven M. bovoculi isolates: three that originated from the eyes of clinical IBK bovine cases and four from the deep nasopharynx of asymptomatic cattle. Isolates that originated from the eyes of IBK cases profoundly differed from those that originated from the nasopharynx of asymptomatic cattle in genome structure, gene content and polymorphism diversity and consequently placed into two distinct phylogenetic groups. These results suggest that there are genetically distinct strains of M. bovoculi that may not associate with IBK.

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