What is "botryomycosis"

n. bacterial pseudomycosis; a rare chronic granulomatous bacterial infection that affects the skin and sometimes the viscera

Botryomycosis; also known as bacterial pseudomycosis is a rare chronic granulomatous bacterial infection that affects the skin, and sometimes the viscera.

Botryomycosis has been known to affect humans, horses, cattle, swine, dogs and cats. It can occur in recently castrated horses if proper hygiene is not followed and the end of the spermatic chord becomes infected with S. aureus.