Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)

Includes:
diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible
Use additional
code to identify resistance to antimicrobial drugs (Z16.-)
Excludes 1:
certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters
Excludes 2:
carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-)
infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)
influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)

Viral infections characterized by skin and mucous membrane lesions (B00-B09)

B00 Herpesviral [herpes simplex] infections [+]
Excludes 1: congenital herpesviral infections (P35.2)
Excludes 2: anogenital herpesviral infection (A60.-)
gammaherpesviral mononucleosis (B27.0-)
herpangina (B08.5)
B01 Varicella [chickenpox] [+]
B02 Zoster [herpes zoster] [+]
Includes: shingles
zona
B03 Smallpox
Note: In 1980 the 33rd World Health Assembly declared that smallpox had been eradicated.
The classification is maintained for surveillance purposes.
B04 Monkeypox
B05 Measles [+]
Includes: morbilli
Excludes 1: subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (A81.1)
B06 Rubella [German measles] [+]
Excludes 1: congenital rubella (P35.0)
B07 Viral warts [+]
Includes: verruca simplex
verruca vulgaris
viral warts due to human papillomavirus
Excludes 2: anogenital (venereal) warts (A63.0)
papilloma of bladder (D41.4)
papilloma of cervix (D26.0)
papilloma larynx (D14.1)
B08 Other viral infections characterized by skin and mucous membrane lesions, not elsewhere classified [+]
Excludes 1: vesicular stomatitis virus disease (A93.8)
B09 Unspecified viral infection characterized by skin and mucous membrane lesions
Viral enanthema NOS
Viral exanthema NOS

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