Moraxella bovoculi is a recently described bacterium that is associated with infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK)\nor ââ?¬Å?pinkeyeââ?¬Â in cattle. In this study, closed circularized genomes were generated for seven M. bovoculi isolates: three\nthat originated from the eyes of clinical IBK bovine cases and four from the deep nasopharynx of asymptomatic cattle.\nIsolates that originated from the eyes of IBK cases profoundly differed from those that originated from the nasopharynx\nof asymptomatic cattle in genome structure, gene content and polymorphism diversity and consequently placed\ninto two distinct phylogenetic groups. These results suggest that there are genetically distinct strains of M. bovoculi\nthat may not associate with IBK.
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