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Abstract. Several thermophilic anaerobic bacteria with keratinolytic activity growing at temperatures between 50C and 90C were isolated from samples collected on the island of So Miguel in the Azores (Portugal). On the basis of morphological, physiological, and 16S rDNA studies, the isolate 2KXI was identified as a new species of the genus Thermoanaerobacter, designated Thermoanaerobacter keratinophilus...