Thermothrix azorensis

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| taxon = Thermothrix azorensis

| authority = Odintsova et al. 1996[http://www.bacterio.net/allnamessz.html bacterio.net] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922200838/http://www.bacterio.net/allnamessz.html |date=2013-09-22 }}

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Thermothrix azorensis is a Gram-negative, facultatively chemolithoautotrophic, non-spore-forming, aerobic, thermophilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium of the genus Thermothrix, isolated from a hot spring on Sao Miguel Island in the Azores.{{cite journal| pmid=8934901 | doi=10.1099/00207713-46-2-422 | volume=46 | issue=2 | title=Thermothrix azorensis sp. nov., an obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing, thermophilic bacterium | year=1996 | journal=Int J Syst Bacteriol | pages=422–8 | last1 = Odintsova | first1 = EV | last2 = Jannasch | first2 = HW | last3 = Mamone | first3 = JA | last4 = Langworthy | first4 = TA| doi-access=free }}[https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/48383 UniProt] T. azorensis uses thiosulfate, tetrathionate, hydrogen sulfide, and elemental sulfur for its sources of energy (chemolithoautotrophic).{{cite journal| pmid=8934901 | doi=10.1099/00207713-46-2-422 | volume=46 | issue=2 | title=Thermothrix azorensis sp. nov., an obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing, thermophilic bacterium | year=1996 | journal=Int J Syst Bacteriol | pages=422–8 | last1 = Odintsova | first1 = EV | last2 = Jannasch | first2 = HW | last3 = Mamone | first3 = JA | last4 = Langworthy | first4 = TA| doi-access=free }}