Excludes1

  • amebiasis (A06.-)
  • other protozoal intestinal diseases (A07.-)
  1. B53 Other specified malaria

    1. B53.0 Plasmodium ovale malaria

    2. B53.1 Malaria due to simian plasmodia

    3. B53.8 Other malaria, not elsewhere classified

Abbreviations used here:

NEC Not elsewhere classifiable
This abbreviation in the Tabular List represents “other specified”. When a specific code is not available for a condition, the Tabular List includes an NEC entry under a code to identify the code as the “other specified” code.

NOS Not otherwise specified
This abbreviation is the equivalent of unspecified.