METHODS
Article searches were conducted via PubMed, Cochrane Library and Google Scholar electronic databases spanning January 2001 and December 2020. MeSH terms used in PubMed were: ‘otomycosis’, ‘fungal otitis externa’, ‘treatment’, ‘therapy’ and ‘therapeutics’. Articles that were not freely accessible, non-English language studies, those related to mixed otitis externa, fungal malignant otitis externa, complicated otomycosis (e.g those associated with tympanic membrane perforation) and alternative medicine for otomycosis were excluded. The PRISMA 2020 Checklist (13) was used as a guideline for reporting although the article is not a full systematic review per se.