ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain staphylococcal or streptococcal diseases
1B54 — Meningitis due to Staphylococcus
ICD-11 1B54 — Meningitis due to Staphylococcus
A disease of the meninges, caused by an infection with the gram-positive bacteria genus Staphylococcus. This disease commonly presents with acute inflammation of the meninges causing headache, fever, stiff neck, or neurological deficits. Confirmation is by identification of Staphylococcus in the cerebrospinal fluid.
It includes 1 item.
- Staphylococcal meningitis
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Bacterial meningitis #672
- Bacterial meningitis #8793