Publications

randomized blinded controlled trial to assess the association between a commercial vaccine against moraxella bovis and the cumulative incidence of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis in beef calves.	objective to assess the association between a commercially available vaccine against moraxella bovis and cumulative incidence of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (ibk) from processing to weaning (primary objective) and body weight at weaning (secondary objective). design randomized blinded controlled trial. animals 214 calves (≥ 2 months of age) born in the spring of 2015 at an iowa state university cow-calf research unit with no visible lesions or scars on either eye. procedures calves we ...	2017	28703672
infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis epizootic associated with area-wide emergence of a new moraxella bovis pilus type.	pilus-mediated adherence is a virulence attribute of moraxella bovis. several pilus types have been shown to exist among strains of this bacterium, but correlation between pilus type and specific field cases of the disease has not been done. during the summer of 1987, an epizootic of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis was reported in 7 iowa counties. eight isolates of m bovis were secured from 12 episodes studied. all 8 of the isolates were nearly homogeneous in biochemical properties and ha ...	1989	2572190