Whyte, Barry James2015-10-292015-10-292008-09-09http://hdl.handle.net/10919/61333A new study shows that the innate immune system of humans is capable of killing a fungus linked to airway inflammation, chronic rhinosinusitis, and bronchial asthma. Researchers at Mayo Clinic and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have revealed that eosinophils, a particular type of white blood cell, exert a strong immune response against the environmental fungus <em>Alternaria alternata</em>.text/htmlIn CopyrightResearchPress releaseVirginia Tech. University Relations