Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases

**Includes:** - diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible

**Excludes1:** - certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters

**Excludes2:** - 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.-)