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Certain skin disorders attributable to bacterial infection

International Classification of Diseases for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, 11th Revision, v2024-01

Disorders of the skin and/or subcutaneous tissues caused by bacteria which a) cause infection normally limited to the skin (e.g. erythrasma); b) characteristically involve the skin at the same time as other organs (e.g. syphilis); c) which may cause disease in the skin as well as in other organs (e.g. cutaneous tuberculosis) or d) which infect other organs but which may manifest in the skin as a result of release of toxins or other indirect mechanism (e.g. streptococcal toxic shock syndrome).

exclusions

• Asymptomatic colonization of the skin by virulent or therapy resistant bacteria  (QD04)

code elsewhere

• Pyogenic bacterial infections of the skin or subcutaneous tissues  (1B70-1B7Z)
• Non-pyogenic bacterial infections of the skin  (1C44)
• Yaws  (1C1D)
• Pinta  (1C1E)
• Endemic non-venereal syphilis  (1C1F)
• Cutaneous tuberculosis  (1B12.8)
• Leprosy  (1B20)
• Cutaneous non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection  (1B21.2)
• Acute meningococcaemia  (1C1C.20)
• Disseminated gonococcal infection  (1A73)
• Non-venereal treponematoses  (1C4Z)
• Systemic bacterial infection affecting skin  (1C41)

sections/codes in this section (EA40-EA5Z)

• Dermatoses due to certain filamentous bacteria
• Predominantly tropical or subtropical bacterial infections affecting skin  (EA40-EA40)
• Toxin-mediated cutaneous reactions to distant or systemic bacterial infection  (EA50)
• Skin complications of BCG immunisation  (EA51)
• Cutaneous involvement by other specified bacterial infection  (EA5Y)
• Cutaneous involvement by unspecified bacterial infection  (EA5Z)

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