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
  • B44.9

    Aspergillosis, unspecified

  • B45

    Cryptococcosis

  • B45.0

    Pulmonary cryptococcosis

  • B45.1

    Cerebral cryptococcosis

  • B45.2

    Cutaneous cryptococcosis

  • B45.3

    Osseous cryptococcosis

  • B45.7

    Disseminated cryptococcosis

  • B45.8

    Other forms of cryptococcosis

  • B45.9

    Cryptococcosis, unspecified

  • B46

    Zygomycosis

  • B46.0

    Pulmonary mucormycosis

  • B46.1

    Rhinocerebral mucormycosis

  • B46.2

    Gastrointestinal mucormycosis

  • B46.3

    Cutaneous mucormycosis

  • B46.4

    Disseminated mucormycosis

  • B46.5

    Mucormycosis, unspecified

  • B46.8

    Other zygomycoses

  • B46.9

    Zygomycosis, unspecified

  • B47

    Mycetoma

  • B47.0

    Eumycetoma

  • B47.1

    Actinomycetoma

  • B47.9

    Mycetoma, unspecified

  • B48

    Other mycoses, not elsewhere classified

  • B48.0

    Lobomycosis

  • B48.1

    Rhinosporidiosis

  • B48.2

    Allescheriasis

  • B48.3

    Geotrichosis

  • B48.4

    Penicillosis

  • B48.8

    Other specified mycoses

  • B49

    Unspecified mycosis

  • B50

    Plasmodium falciparum malaria

  • B50.0

    Plasmodium falciparum malaria with cerebral complications

  • B50.8

    Other severe and complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria

  • B50.9

    Plasmodium falciparum malaria, unspecified

  • B51

    Plasmodium vivax malaria

  • B51.0

    Plasmodium vivax malaria with rupture of spleen

  • B51.8

    Plasmodium vivax malaria with other complications

  • B51.9

    Plasmodium vivax malaria without complication

  • B52

    Plasmodium malariae malaria

  • B52.0

    Plasmodium malariae malaria with nephropathy

  • B52.8

    Plasmodium malariae malaria with other complications

  • B52.9

    Plasmodium malariae malaria without complication

  • B53

    Other specified malaria

  • B53.0

    Plasmodium ovale malaria

  • B53.1

    Malaria due to simian plasmodia

  • B53.8

    Other malaria, not elsewhere classified

  • B54

    Unspecified malaria

  • B55

    Leishmaniasis

  • B55.0

    Visceral leishmaniasis

  • B55.1

    Cutaneous leishmaniasis

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