Editing Frederick Griffith (section)

===Bacteriology===
In 1931 Frederick Griffith coauthored a paper on acute [[tonsillitis]]—its [[sequelae]], epidemiology, and bacteriology.<ref>{{Cite journal |author=Glover JA & Griffith F |title=Acute tonsillitis and some of its sequels: Epidemiological and bacteriological observations |journal=British Medical Journal|doi=10.1136/bmj.2.3689.521|year=1931|volume=2|issue=3689|pages=521–7|pmid=20776393|pmc=2315140}}</ref> In 1934, Griffith reported voluminous findings on the serological typing of ''[[Streptococcus pyogenes]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Griffith F |title=The serological classification of ''Streptococcus pyogenes''|journal=Journal of Hygiene|pmid=20475253 |pmc=2170909 |doi=10.1017/S0022172400043308 |volume=34 |issue=4 |date=December 1934 |pages=542–84}}</ref> More casually as well as medically called simply streptococcus,<ref>Kenneth Todar [http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/streptococcus.html "''Streptococcus pyogenes'' and streptococcal disease (page 1) "]. ''Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology''. 2008.</ref> ''S pyogenes'' is implicated in conditions ranging from the usually minor [[strep throat]], to the sometimes fatal [[scarlet fever]], to the often fatal [[puerperal fever]], to the usually fatal [[streptococcal sepsis]].<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Streptococcal sepsis |journal=British Medical Journal|pmid=5198333 |pmc=1699551 |doi= 10.1136/bmj.1.5695.513 |volume=1 |issue=5695 |date=February 1970 |pages=513–4}}</ref> Streptococcal infection was a frequent coinfection complicating recovery from lobar pneumonia by pneumococci infection.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1001/jama.1933.02740230035007 |title=Streptococcic sepsis complicating recovery from pneumococcal pneumonia |journal=Journal of the American Medical Association|author=Parsons JW & Meyers WK |year=1933|volume=100|issue=23|pages=1857}}</ref>