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Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis 2019

Conclusion Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK) should be considered a serious disease, because despite having quite low mortality rate among cattle worldwide, it has quite high morbidity rate. The disease causes discomfort to the cattle and considerable financial losses to dairy industries because of decreased weight gain and milk production. Farmers should consider all the risk factors which cause cattle poor body condition and low immunity level, such as poor- quality nutrition and contamined shelter. Moraxella bovis being an extremely resistant and possibly remaining many years in farm, then IBK becomes a hardly avoidable disease and strong immunity helps the body to resist. To avoid spreading over the farm then it is important to focus on the biosafety, animal recovery and welfare. There are many opportunities for cattle breeders to avoid and reduce exposure with Moraxella bovis. For example, they should