Component Causes of Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis - The Role of Moraxella Species in the Epidemiology of Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis

Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK) involves multiple factors and opportunistic pathogens, including members of the genus Moraxella , specifically M bovis . The causal role is clear, where presence virulence that facilitate colonization (pili) host cytotoxicity (RTX toxins) are well characterized, IBK has been reproduced in many models. Experimental infection with bovoculi failed to reproduce IBK-typical lesions cattle thus far. However, recent work using genomics mass spectrometry have found genomic diversity recombination within these species, making species differentiation complex challenging ability assign causality organisms.