ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Parasitic diseases
Helminthiases
Diseases due to cestodes
1F70 — Cysticercosis
ICD-11 1F70 — Cysticercosis
A disease caused by an infection of tissue with larval cysts from the parasitic worm Taenia solium. This disease presents with symptoms depending on the site of infection (central nervous system, eye, or muscle). Transmission is through haematogenous spread of larvae to affected tissue after ingestion of Taenia solium eggs (or proglottids) in contaminated food or water. Confirmation is commonly by detection of antibodies against Taenia solium in a blood sample, cerebrospinal fluid, or faeces, and by advanced imaging of affected tissue.
It includes 1 item.
- cysticerciasis infection due to larval form of Taenia solium
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
Diagnosis with code 1F70 contains 4 clarifying diagnoses:
- 1F70.0 — Cysticercosis of central nervous system
It contains 1 clarifying diagnosis. - 1F70.1 — Cysticercosis of eye
- 1F70.Y — Other specified cysticercosis
- 1F70.Z — Cysticercosis, unspecified