| moraxella bovoculi sp. nov., isolated from calves with infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis. | eighteen isolates of a gram-negative coccus (strain 237(t)) were cultured from the eyes of dairy and beef calves affected with infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (ibk; 'pinkeye') in northern california, usa, during summer 2002. these isolates had near full-length (1397 bp) 16s rrna gene sequences that clustered into three groups with 99.9 % sequence similarity. on the basis of 16s rrna gene sequence, the isolates were most closely associated with moraxella bovis and moraxella ovis in clade i ... | 2007 | 17392208 |