Protozoal diseases - B50-B64
Excludes1: It indicates that the conditions described by two codes cannot occur together in the same patient. These codes are mutually exclusive.
Type 1 Excludes:
- amebiasis (A06.-)
- other protozoal intestinal diseases (A07.-)
These ranges represents Categories of Protozoal diseases. The "B50-B64" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad section.
Codes:
- B50 - Plasmodium falciparum malaria
- B51 - Plasmodium vivax malaria
- B52 - Plasmodium malariae malaria
- B53 - Other specified malaria
- B54 - Unspecified malaria
- B55 - Leishmaniasis
- B56 - African trypanosomiasis
- B57 - Chagas' disease
- B58 - Toxoplasmosis
- B59 - Pneumocystosis
- B60 - Other protozoal diseases, not elsewhere classified
- B64 - Unspecified protozoal disease