The thesis area includes 44 square miles of the Centennial
Range in Beaverhead County, Montana, and Clark County, Idaho.
The rocks exposed in the area range in age from Precambrian
to Recent and have been divided into 23 mapped units. Pre-Belt
metamorphic basement rocks are overlain unconformably by 3,433
feet...
The need for better procedures for detecting Staphylococcus
aureus prompted an investigation to improve coagulase testing. The
rates of coagulase clotting were studied by using varying concentrations
of trypsin inhibitor and coagulase-reacting factor (CRF). Egg
white trypsin inhibitor activated coagulase clotting when added to a
final concentration between 2 and...