ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral infections of the central nervous system
1C8E — Viral meningitis not elsewhere classified
1C8E.2 — Meningitis due to adenovirus
ICD-11 1C8E.2 — Meningitis due to adenovirus
A disease of the meninges, caused by an infection with adenovirus. This disease is characterised by high fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, stiff neck, photophobia, drowsiness, skin rash, confusion, seizures, or loss of consciousness. This disease may be asymptomatic in older adults. Transmission is through haematogenous spread to the meninges. Confirmation is by identification of adenovirus through a lumbar puncture, by agglutination tests, or by polymerase chain reaction.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: