The College of Education for Pure Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, discussed a master’s thesis on the isolation and diagnosis of pathogens associated with ear infections in the city of Basrah.
The thesis submitted by the researcher (Rabab Saleh Jabr) included:
Chlamydia bacteria play a major role in causing ear infections, as C. pneumoniae represents
The second cause is chronic ear infections
The disease can be contracted by C. pneumoniae bacteria, which causes upper respiratory tract infection
The infection spreads to the middle ear through the curtain canal.
Inaccurate diagnosis of the aetiology increases the aggravation of ear infections and turns into severe infections
To chronic and perhaps to malignant diseases, especially otitis externa.
Incorrect selection of antibiotics or irregular administration of appropriate treatment generates resistance to pathogens
Bacteria, which increases the severity of ear infections.
  Or using contaminated earphones, exposure to excessive humidity, and not being treated
Chronic ear infections often occur in diabetics
Some bacterial pathogens isolated from ear infections that were not recorded among ear infections were recorded in
Previous studies of Basra Governorate