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A non‐filamentous marine phycomycete, isolate S‐3, responds in a quantitative and specific manner to the presence of thiamine. This fungus has been used to assay for thiamine in sea water. The assay is sensitive to 25 µµg/ml thiamine.
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Helen S. Vishniac (1961) studied this question.
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