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The article reports that scientists have uncovered a mechanism by which Haemophilus influenzae, a bug that commonly instigates childhood sinus infections, uses the body's immune response to crush the movement of microbes in it. Our bodies tolerate a wide range of resident microbes, but when these bugs grow out of control, the immune system hits them with a slew of fighter cells. But when the research team grew the bugs together in mouse nasal passages, the mouse's immune cells killed off the Streptococcus strain. These cells specifically targeted and eliminated the Streptococcus bacteria but left its competitor relatively intact.