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Outer Ear Infections in Iran: A Review

BACKGROUND: Otitis externa is the fungal and bacterial infection of the outer ear. AIM: We aimed to investigate the published papers about the outer ear infections in Iran and suggest standardised investigations and treatments. METHODS: We used different electronic databases like PubMed, Scopus, Web...

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Autores principales: Kiakojuri, Keyvan, Armaki, Mojtaba Taghizadeh, Rajabnia, Ramazan, Pournajaf, Abazar, Karami, Mohsen, Khademian, Aynaz, Omran, Saeid Mahdavi
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Publicado: Republic of Macedonia 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6490499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31049113
http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.176
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author Kiakojuri, Keyvan
Armaki, Mojtaba Taghizadeh
Rajabnia, Ramazan
Pournajaf, Abazar
Karami, Mohsen
Khademian, Aynaz
Omran, Saeid Mahdavi
author_facet Kiakojuri, Keyvan
Armaki, Mojtaba Taghizadeh
Rajabnia, Ramazan
Pournajaf, Abazar
Karami, Mohsen
Khademian, Aynaz
Omran, Saeid Mahdavi
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description BACKGROUND: Otitis externa is the fungal and bacterial infection of the outer ear. AIM: We aimed to investigate the published papers about the outer ear infections in Iran and suggest standardised investigations and treatments. METHODS: We used different electronic databases like PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Iranmedex, Google Scholar, and Magiran with specific keywords. RESULTS: We obtained forty published full-text articles for review of data. Our results indicated the women were more infected than men. The ages of patients were < 1-81 years. As clinically symptoms, itching and Feel the ear fairy were the most common presenting complaints in most cases. Most infections were the pure bacterial and fungal origin, respectively. However, some of the studies were mixed fungal-bacterial infections — Pseudomonas spp. And Aspergillus niger were the most common bacteria and fungi isolates respectively in Iranian patents. CONCLUSION: Fungal and bacterial specific cultures may be recommended, and anti-fungal drugs may be added, to treatment regimens in patients with otitis externa to reduce the clinical symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-64904992019-05-02 Outer Ear Infections in Iran: A Review Kiakojuri, Keyvan Armaki, Mojtaba Taghizadeh Rajabnia, Ramazan Pournajaf, Abazar Karami, Mohsen Khademian, Aynaz Omran, Saeid Mahdavi Open Access Maced J Med Sci Review Article BACKGROUND: Otitis externa is the fungal and bacterial infection of the outer ear. AIM: We aimed to investigate the published papers about the outer ear infections in Iran and suggest standardised investigations and treatments. METHODS: We used different electronic databases like PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Iranmedex, Google Scholar, and Magiran with specific keywords. RESULTS: We obtained forty published full-text articles for review of data. Our results indicated the women were more infected than men. The ages of patients were < 1-81 years. As clinically symptoms, itching and Feel the ear fairy were the most common presenting complaints in most cases. Most infections were the pure bacterial and fungal origin, respectively. However, some of the studies were mixed fungal-bacterial infections — Pseudomonas spp. And Aspergillus niger were the most common bacteria and fungi isolates respectively in Iranian patents. CONCLUSION: Fungal and bacterial specific cultures may be recommended, and anti-fungal drugs may be added, to treatment regimens in patients with otitis externa to reduce the clinical symptoms. Republic of Macedonia 2019-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6490499/ /pubmed/31049113 http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.176 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Keyvan Kiakojuri, Mojtaba Taghizadeh Armaki, Ramazan Rajabnia, Abazar Pournajaf, Mohsen Karami, Aynaz Khademian, Saeid Mahdavi Omran. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/CC BY-NC/4.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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Khademian, Aynaz
Omran, Saeid Mahdavi
Outer Ear Infections in Iran: A Review
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.176
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