ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Other bacterial diseases
1C13 — Tetanus
ICD-11 1C13 — Tetanus
A disease of the skeletal muscle fibres, caused by an infection with the gram-positive bacteria Clostridium tetani. This disease is characterised by muscle spasms. Transmission is by direct contact of an open wound.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 2 items.
- Obstetrical tetanus (1C14)
- Tetanus neonatorum (1C15)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.