B72
Dracunculiasis
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 5 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 7
- Arthritis, arthritic (acute) (chronic) (nonpyogenic) (subacute) M19.90
- Dracontiasis B72
- Infestation B88.9
- Dracunculiasis, dracunculosis B72
- Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) B99.9
- Worm (s) (infection) (infestation) — see also Infestation, helminth
- guinea B72
- Guinea worms (infection) (infestation) B72
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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