Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis 2019
durable and clean shelter, fly control programs, controlling dust and sources of other
mechanical trauma, healthy and infected animals must be separately (Peek and Divers, 2018).
There is opportunity to decrease severity, incidence and increase host immunity via the use of
vaccination against the disease. It is known that only pilated strains of Moraxella bovis can
cause IBK in cattle. These are used killed Moraxella bovis cells as component in vaccine and
it have been shown to be antigenetic and immunogenic. Vaccine efficacy against pinkeye is
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very different. The effectiveness of the vaccines depends on the vaccine type, the similarity of
the vaccine organism to the challenge organism, bacteria strains and other components to
formulate the vaccine. Efforts to develop perfect vaccine is laborious due to the loss of pili
during the cultivation. Lipopolysaccharides, outer membrane proteins, lipolytic enzymes and
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