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)

Protozoal diseases (B50-B64)

Excludes 1:
amebiasis (A06.-)
other protozoal intestinal diseases (A07.-)
B50 Plasmodium falciparum malaria [+]
Includes: mixed infections of Plasmodium falciparum with any other Plasmodium species
B51 Plasmodium vivax malaria [+]
Includes: mixed infections of Plasmodium vivax with other Plasmodium species, except Plasmodium falciparum
Excludes 1: plasmodium vivax with Plasmodium falciparum (B50.-)
B52 Plasmodium malariae malaria [+]
Includes: mixed infections of Plasmodium malariae with other Plasmodium species, except Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax
Excludes 1: Plasmodium falciparum (B50.-)
Plasmodium vivax (B51.-)
B53 Other specified malaria [+]
B54 Unspecified malaria
B55 Leishmaniasis [+]
B56 African trypanosomiasis [+]
B57 Chagas' disease [+]
Includes: American trypanosomiasis
infection due to Trypanosoma cruzi
B58 Toxoplasmosis [+]
Includes: infection due to Toxoplasma gondii
Excludes 1: congenital toxoplasmosis (P37.1)
B59 Pneumocystosis
Pneumonia due to Pneumocystis carinii
Pneumonia due to Pneumocystis jiroveci
B60 Other protozoal diseases, not elsewhere classified [+]
Excludes 1: cryptosporidiosis (A07.2)
intestinal microsporidiosis (A07.8)
isosporiasis (A07.3)
B64 Unspecified protozoal disease

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