A06.0
Acute amebic dysentery
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 8 never code together
A06code
A00-B99chapter
Excludes1
- certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters
Excludes2
- carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)Z22.-
- infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-)O98.-
- infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)P35-P39
- influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)J00-J22
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 5
Index entries leading here 6
- Amebiasis A06.9
- Diarrhea, diarrheal (disease) (infantile) (inflammatory) R19.7
- Dysentery, dysenteric (catarrhal) (diarrhea) (epidemic) (hemorrhagic) (infectious) (sporadic) (tropical) A09
- Enteritis (acute) (diarrheal) (hemorrhagic) (noninfective) K52.9
- amebic (acute) A06.0
- Proctitis K62.89
- amebic (acute) A06.0
- Colitis (acute) (catarrhal) (chronic) (noninfective) (hemorrhagic) K52.9
- amebic (acute) A06.0
Alongside this code 9 same parent — A06
Medications 1
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
Additional references
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