ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Mycoses
1F2L — Emmonsiosis
1F2L.1 — Pulmonary adiaspiromycosis
ICD-11 1F2L.1 — Pulmonary adiaspiromycosis
Pulmonary adiaspiromycosis is an infection of the lungs due to inhalation of spores of the saprophytic soil fungus Chrysosporium parvum(formerly Emmonsia parva). The fungus affects many species of rodents but may occasionally infect humans. It is characterised by the presence of huge spherules (adiaspores) in the lungs.
It includes 1 item.
- Adiaspiromycosis
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Fungal pneumonia #1473
- Fungal pneumonia #12602