ICD-11 classes
14 Diseases of the skin
Certain skin disorders attributable to infection or...
Certain skin disorders attributable to bacterial infection
Certain zoonotic bacterial infections involving the skin
1C1J — Relapsing fever
1C1J.0 — Tick-borne relapsing fever
ICD-11 1C1J.0 — Tick-borne relapsing fever
A disease caused by an infection with the bacteria Borrelia. This disease is characterised by repeated episodes of fever, with the febrile episode lasting for approximately 3 days, followed by the afebrile state of approximately 7 days. Transmission is through the bite of an infected soft tick (from the genus Ornithodoros). Confirmation is by identification of spirochete bacteria from a blood smear, bone marrow, or cerebrospinal fluid.
It includes 1 item.
- Relapsing fever due to any Borrelia species other than Borrelia recurrentis
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Relapsing fever #472