title: Identification of Moraxella bovis by qualitative genetic transformation and nutritional assays.
abstract: Strains of Moraxella bovis were identified definitively through the combined use of a qualitative genetic transformation assay and determination of the ability of the organism under examination to grow in a defined medium (medium MB). Except for weak transformation by DNA from strains of M. lacunata, M. nonliquefaciens, and M. (Branhamella) ovis, DNA samples from all other members of the genus Moraxella failed to transform either of the two M. bovis auxotrophs used in this study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0620.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Juni
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Heym
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Newcomb
mesh_terms: D003470:Culture Media; D009016:Moraxella / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014170:Transformation, Genetic
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media