Moraxella bovis


Moraxella bovis is a Gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive diplococcus implicated in infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, an eye disease of cattle, also colloquially known as pinkeye or New Forest eye.. M.bovis was first associated with cattle pinkeye in 1915 in Bengal, India
The restriction enzyme MboI, widely used in biotechnology, is isolated from this species.