ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Mycoses
1F22 — Blastomycosis
ICD-11 1F22 — Blastomycosis
A disease caused by an infection with the fungi Blastomyces dermatitidis. This disease is characterised by fever, chills, cough, myalgia, arthralgia, or chest pain. This disease may also present in the skin and bones. Transmission is by inhalation of fungal spores. Confirmation is by identification of Blastomyces dermatitidis in a urine, cerebrospinal fluid, or blood sample.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 2 items.
- Brazilian blastomycosis (1F2E)
- keloidal blastomycosis (1F2B)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.