ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain zoonotic bacterial diseases
1B93 — Plague
1B93.2 — Pneumonic plague
ICD-11 1B93.2 — Pneumonic plague
Pneumonic plague is a zoonotic disease caused by Yersinia pestis (formerly known as Pasteurella pestis) involving the lung. The lungs are seeded by hematogenous spread or from inhalation of the pathogen.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.