Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases - Z20
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:
- carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
- diagnosed current infectious or parasitic disease -see Alphabetic Index
Excludes2: This note means that the conditions described by two codes are not usually associated with each other but can sometimes occur together.
Type 2 Excludes:
- personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases (Z86.1-)
These ranges represents subcategories of Contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases. The "Z20" signifies that these are the diseases within this broad category.
Codes:
- Z20.0 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to intestinal infectious diseases
- Z20.01 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to intestinal infectious diseases due to Escherichia coli (E. coli)
- Z20.09 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other intestinal infectious diseases
- Z20.1 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to tuberculosis
- Z20.2 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission
- Z20.3 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rabies
- Z20.4 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to rubella
- Z20.5 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to viral hepatitis
- Z20.6 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]
- Z20.7 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to pediculosis, acariasis and other infestations
- Z20.8 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseases
- Z20.81 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other bacterial communicable diseases
- Z20.810 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to anthrax
- Z20.811 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to meningococcus
- Z20.818 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other bacterial communicable diseases
- Z20.82 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other viral communicable diseases
- Z20.820 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to varicella
- Z20.821 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to Zika virus
- Z20.822 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19
- Z20.828 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other viral communicable diseases
- Z20.89 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other communicable diseases
- Z20.9 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to unspecified communicable disease