ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral infections of the central nervous system
1C80 — Viral encephalitis not elsewhere classified
1C85 — Japanese encephalitis
ICD-11 1C85 — Japanese encephalitis
A disease of the brain, caused by an infection with flavivirus. This disease is characterised by fever, headache, meningism, hyperexcitability, or decreased consciousness. This disease may also present with neurological signs such as cranial nerve palsies, tremor and ataxia, parkinsonism, or upper limb paralysis. Transmission is through the bite of an infected mosquito. Confirmation is by identification of flavivirus in a serum sample or cerebrospinal fluid.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: