ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Parasitic diseases
Malaria
1F43 — Malaria due to Plasmodium ovale
ICD-11 1F43 — Malaria due to Plasmodium ovale
A disease caused by an infection with the protozoan parasite Plasmodium ovale. This disease is characterised by fever, chills, headache, nausea and vomiting, body aches, or general malaise. Transmission is through the bite of an infected mosquito. Confirmation is by identification of Plasmodium ovale in a blood sample.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 3 items.
- when mixed with Plasmodium malariae (1F42)
- when mixed with Plasmodium falciparum (1F40)
- when mixed with Plasmodium vivax (1F41)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.