Chapter 1

A00–B99: Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases

Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases diagnostic classification updated for 2026.

Chapter Instructions

Includes
  • diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible
Excludes1(Not coded here. Use a different code.)
  • certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters
Excludes2(Not included here. Code separately if applicable.)
  • 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)
Use Additional Code
  • code to identify resistance to antimicrobial drugs (Z16.-)
Internal Codes
  • B65.0

    Schistosomiasis due to Schistosoma haematobium [urinary schistosomiasis]

  • B65.1

    Schistosomiasis due to Schistosoma mansoni [intestinal schistosomiasis]

  • B65.2

    Schistosomiasis due to Schistosoma japonicum

  • B65.3

    Cercarial dermatitis

  • B65.8

    Other schistosomiasis

  • B65.9

    Schistosomiasis, unspecified

  • B66.0

    Opisthorchiasis

  • B66.1

    Clonorchiasis

  • B66.2

    Dicroceliasis

  • B66.3

    Fascioliasis

  • B66.4

    Paragonimiasis

  • B66.5

    Fasciolopsiasis

  • B66.8

    Other specified fluke infections

  • B66.9

    Fluke infection, unspecified

  • B67.0

    Echinococcus granulosus infection of liver

  • B67.1

    Echinococcus granulosus infection of lung

  • B67.2

    Echinococcus granulosus infection of bone

  • B67.31

    Echinococcus granulosus infection, thyroid gland

  • B67.32

    Echinococcus granulosus infection, multiple sites

  • B67.39

    Echinococcus granulosus infection, other sites

  • B67.4

    Echinococcus granulosus infection, unspecified

  • B67.5

    Echinococcus multilocularis infection of liver

  • B67.61

    Echinococcus multilocularis infection, multiple sites

  • B67.69

    Echinococcus multilocularis infection, other sites

  • B67.7

    Echinococcus multilocularis infection, unspecified

  • B67.8

    Echinococcosis, unspecified, of liver

  • B67.90

    Echinococcosis, unspecified

  • B67.99

    Other echinococcosis

  • B68.0

    Taenia solium taeniasis

  • B68.1

    Taenia saginata taeniasis

  • B68.9

    Taeniasis, unspecified

  • B69.0

    Cysticercosis of central nervous system

  • B69.1

    Cysticercosis of eye

  • B69.81

    Myositis in cysticercosis

  • B69.89

    Cysticercosis of other sites

  • B69.9

    Cysticercosis, unspecified

  • B70.0

    Diphyllobothriasis

  • B70.1

    Sparganosis

  • B71.0

    Hymenolepiasis

  • B71.1

    Dipylidiasis

  • B71.8

    Other specified cestode infections

  • B71.9

    Cestode infection, unspecified

  • B72

    Dracunculiasis

  • B73.00

    Onchocerciasis with eye involvement, unspecified

  • B73.01

    Onchocerciasis with endophthalmitis

  • B73.02

    Onchocerciasis with glaucoma

  • B73.09

    Onchocerciasis with other eye involvement

  • B73.1

    Onchocerciasis without eye disease

  • B74.0

    Filariasis due to Wuchereria bancrofti

  • B74.1

    Filariasis due to Brugia malayi

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