Botryomycosis, also called as bacterial pseudomycosis is a chronic, granulomatous, suppurative infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus .
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Botryomycosis in an immunocompetent woman," Journal of Dermatological Case Reports, vol.
Central area of the cystic spaces contain granular, basophilic, filamentous material surrounded by Splendore-Hoeppli Phenomenon along with neutrophilic microabscesses suggestive of
botryomycosis [Fig.
Key words:
Botryomycosis, granulomatous, Staphylococcus aureus.
SAN DIEGO -- Differential diagnoses included cutaneous tuberculosis, mycetoma, leishmaniasis,
botryomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, osteomyelitis, bone and soft tissue tumors, and other deep fungal or atypical mycobacterial infections.
(2) It was first described as human
botryomycosis by Poncet and Dor in 1897.
These cases were numbers 06 (necrobiosis lipoidica) and 08 (
botryomycosis) for the ND dermatitides and numbers 05 (epidermolysis bullosa dermolytic) and 08 (systemic lupus erythematosus) for the SV dermatitides, as listed in Table 1.
Botryomycosis is a chronic inflammatory condition due to a bacterial infection.13 The infection is more common in immunocompromised patients.
avium-intracellulare), Actinomycosis or other deep mycosis (Sporotrichosis,
Botryomycosis, Nocardiosis etc.), Kaposi's sarcoma and lueticdactylitis.
(14) This phenomenon had been reported most commonly in association with cases of
botryomycosis, which are not fungal infections but are due to aggregates of bacteria.
INTRODUCTION:
Botryomycosis; also known as bacterial pseudomycosis is a rare chronic granulomatous bacterial infection that affects the skin, and sometimes the viscera.