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.