The researchers are also working with pharmaceutical companies to set up trials to test medications to control the fungus. They estimate that it will be at least two years before a treatment will be widely available. They say that the cause of the acute condition is usually a bacterial infection. In most cases, antibiotics are not effective for chronic sinusitis because they target bacteria, not fungi. Finally we are on the trail of a treatment that may actually work.
Some people develop allergies to fungi.
The new evidence from the Mayo study suggests that many people also develop a different kind of immune system response.