background and objective: otitis externa is a common condition affecting the external auditory canal. predisposing factors implicated in the pathogenesis of the condition include preexisting aural disease, genetic factors, infection, trauma, and climatic conditions. bacteria are the most common cause of infection and fungi play a smaller but significant role in the disease. otomycosis is charac...

AIM To describe the bacterial and fungal organisms in otitis externa patients without other risk factors for fungal infections. STUDY DESIGN Cross sectional cohort descriptive study. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ear swabs were obtained from 362 patients aged 1 to 55 years old with clinically diagnosed otitis externa in Erzurum, Turkey, between January 2006 and April 2007, and cultured for aerobic ...

A recent case report in this journal highlighted the pathophysiology and management of bacterial malignant otitis externa (MOE) (1). We describe the case of an elderly gentleman who had a delayed diagnosis of fungal MOE with advanced diseased at time of diagnosis. This case highlights the changing microbiology of this serious disease and the difficulty in diagnosis given the rarity of this form...

In a randomised, multicentric field clinical trial on dogs with otitis externa, the efficacy of an hydrocortisone aceponate-gentamicinmiconazole otic suspension (Easotic, Virbac, Carros, France) applied once daily for 5 days was compared to that of a betamethasone valerate-gentamicin-clotrimazole otic suspension (Otomax, Schering Plough Animal Health, Levallois-Perret, France) applied twice dai...

results patients between 35 and 44 years of age were most frequently affected (25.00%) by otitis externa (average age, 43.87 ± 18.08 years). moreover, women (54.31%) were more frequently affected than men (45.69%). upon direct investigation, gram-positive bacilli were the most commonly identified microorganisms (22.41%). furthermore, bacillus spp. and coagulase-negative staphylococci (22.41% an...

Acute otitis externa, also known as 'swimmer's ear', is a common disease of children, adolescents and adults. While chronic suppurative otitis media or acute otitis media with tympanostomy tubes or a perforation can cause acute otitis externa, both the infecting organisms and management protocol are different. This practice point focuses solely on managing acute otitis externa, without acute ot...

BACKGROUND Acute otitis externa, an inflammatory condition of the external auditory canal, is a common clinical problem in general medicine. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the etiology of otitis externa in patients from the Mazandaran province, north of Iran, which has a humid climate, as humidity can affect the prevalence of pathogenic microorganisms. PATIENTS AND METHODS This cr...

Malignant external otitis manifests as a painful inflammation of the external ear canal, associated with purulent otorrhea and granulation a polyp, MEO is a rare infection of the temporal bone primarily affecting elderly patients and diabetics or immunocompromised individuals. We present a rare case of Fungal malignant otitis externa with facial nerve palsy where formal tissue sampling revealed...

While both acute and chronic otitis externa represent conditions that are encountered commonly by primary care physicians, malignant otitis externa can be a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to generalists and subspecialists alike. Malignant otitis eXterna is a devastating infection of the external auditory canal, which begins as a pseudomonas dermatitis but can progress to an invasive vascu...