Identification of Moraxella bovis by using a monoclonal antibody to a lipopolysaccharide epitope

Abstract

monoclonal antibody to the lipopolysaccharide of Moraxella bovis is described. In an indirect fluorescentantibody test, this monoclonal antibody reacted with 39 of 39 strains of M. bovis tested and did not react with 26 nonfermenting gram-negative coccobacilli other than M. bovis. When used in an indirect fluorescentantibody test, it proved useful for rapid and easy identification of M. bovis.