Research Article
Primary Otomycosis in the Indian Subcontinent: Predisposing Factors, Microbiology, and Classification
Table 3
Percentage of various fungi in otomycosis as reported by different workers over the last few decades.
| | Reports from the Indian subcontinent | Reports from other parts of the world |
| Authors | Joy et al. [32] |
Jain and Agrawal [21] | Jaiswal [42] | Kaur et al. [7] | Pradhan et al. [5] |
Viswanatha et al. [8] | Present study |
Geaney [43] UK | Yassin et al. [44] S. Arabia |
Pontes et al. [2] Bahrain | Yehia et al. [15] Iraq |
Fasunla et al. [3] Nigeria | Pontes et al. [2] Brazil | Jia et al. [17] China | Barati et al. [14] Iran |
| Year | 1980 |
1992 | 1990 | 2000 | 2003 | 2012 | 2014 | 1967 | 1978 |
2009 | 1990 |
2008 | 2009 |
2012 | 2011 |
| Asp. niger | 44.3 | 56.3 | 34 | 36.9 | 25.5 | 56 | 38 | 13.2 | 51.2 | 54.4 | 70.1 | 48.35 | 20 | 54.77 | 41.6 | Asp. fumigatus | 15.7 | 15.6 | — | 41.1 | 6.6 | 18 | 27 | 7.5 | — | 25.1 | 5.6 | 33.96 | 5 | 2.61 | 5.5 | Asp. flavus | 23.2 | 4.7 | — | 1.4 | 37.7 | — | 14 | 9.2 | 18.3 | — | 15.6 | 5.43 | 10 | 6.09 | 49 |
| Other aspergilli | — | 3.1 | — | — | 0.9 | — | — | 34.9 | 13.7 | — | — | — | — | 9.57 | 3.7 |
| Candida sp. | 7.6 | 6.3 | 46 | 13.7 | 10.4 | 16 | 4 | 35.2 | 4.6 | 17 | 7.3 | 12.26 | 55 | 24.35 | 7.6 |
| Mucor sp. | 5.4 | 6.3 | — | 1.4 | — | — | — | — | 2.3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Penicillium sp. | 1.1 | 4.7 | — | 1.4 | — | 10 | 8 | — | 5.3 | 3.5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rhizopus | — | — | 12 | 2.7 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 0.6 | — | — | — | — |
| Chrysosporium | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Other fungi/mixed fungi | 2.7 | 3 | 8 | 1.4 | — | — | 6 | — | 4.6 | — | — | — | 10 | 2.61 | 0.9 |
| No growth | — | — | — | — | 18.9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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