Includes:
diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible
Use additional code (U80-U89), if desired, to identify the antibiotic to which a bacterial agent is resistant.
Excludes:
* 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 and human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease] (O98.-)
* infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period [except tetanus neonatorum, congenital syphilis, perinatal gonococcal infection and perinatal human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease] (P35-P39)
* influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)
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