From parent levels

ChapterICertain infectious and parasitic diseasesOpen

Coding note

Use additional code (U82, U83, U84), if desired, to identify resistance to antimicrobial drugs

Inclusions

  • diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible

Exclusions

  • carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
  • certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters
  • infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium [except obstetrical tetanus] (O98.-)
  • infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period [except tetanus neonatorum, whooping cough, congenital syphilis, perinatal gonococcal infection and perinatal human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease] (P35-P39)
  • influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)
BlockB65-B83HelminthiasesOpen

B81

CategoryResidualBlock B65-B83Chapter I

Other intestinal helminthiases, not elsewhere classified

Exclusions

  • Angiostrongyliasis due to: Angiostrongylus cantonensis (B83.2)
  • Angiostrongyliasis due to: Parastrongylus cantonensis (B83.2)

Subcategories

Parent: B65-B83 Helminthiases