A case of extensive follicular mucinosis, without evidence of lymphoma and present for 9 years, was complicated by cutaneous botryomycosis which initially resembled sporotrichosis. Scanty Staphylococcus aureus was cultured with difficulty. No immunodeficiency could be demonstrated, and the importance of a local factor (namely follicular mucinosis) in the production of the characteristic histological reaction of botryomycosis is emphasized.
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