B55.0
Visceral leishmaniasis
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 7 never code together
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 4
Index entries leading here 15
- Fever (inanition) (of unknown origin) (persistent) (with chills) (with rigor) R50.9
- Assam fever B55.0
- Burdwan fever B55.0
- Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) B99.9
- Leishmaniasis B55.9
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- Sirkari's B55.0
- Dumdum fever B55.0
- Dysentery, dysenteric (catarrhal) (diarrhea) (epidemic) (hemorrhagic) (infectious) (sporadic) (tropical) A09
- leishmanial B55.0
- Mediterranean
- Kala-azar B55.0
- Leishmanoid, dermal — see also Leishmaniasis, cutaneous
- post-kala-azar B55.0
- Ponos B55.0
- Sahib disease B55.0
- Sirkari's disease B55.0
- Sudanese kala-azar B55.0
Alongside this code 3 same parent — B55
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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