1C16

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Gas gangrene

Description

Gas gangrene or clostridial myonecrosis is a potentially fatal, rapidly progressive necrotizing infection of muscle and soft tissue resulting from bacterial invasion of healthy muscle from adjacent traumatized muscle or soft tissue. The infection originates in a wound contaminated with bacteria of the genus Clostridium. C. perfringens accounts for the majority of cases (over eighty percent), while C. novyi, C. septicum, and C. histolyticum cause most of the other cases.

Index terms

  • Gas gangrene
  • Clostridial cellulitis
  • Clostridial myonecrosis
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  • gas gangrene due to clostridia

Exclusions from above levels

  • NE83.1 – Infection arising from device, implant or graft, not elsewhere classified

Sibling codes

  • 1C10 – Actinomycosis
  • 1C11 – Bartonellosis
  • 1C12 – Whooping cough
  • 1C13 – Tetanus
  • 1C14 – Obstetrical tetanus
  • 1C15 – Tetanus neonatorum
  • 1C17 – Diphtheria
  • 1C18 – Brazilian purpuric fever
  • 1C19 – Legionellosis
  • 1C1A – Listeriosis
  • 1C1B – Nocardiosis
  • 1C1C – Meningococcal disease
  • 1C1D – Yaws
  • 1C1E – Pinta
  • 1C1F – Endemic non-venereal syphilis
  • 1C1G – Lyme borreliosis
  • 1C1H – Necrotising ulcerative gingivitis
  • 1C1J – Relapsing fever
  • 1C40 – Campylobacteriosis
  • 1C41 – Bacterial infection of unspecified site
  • 1C42 – Melioidosis
  • 1C43 – Actinomycetoma
  • 1C44 – Non-pyogenic bacterial infections of the skin
  • 1C45 – Toxic shock syndrome
  • 1C4Y – Other specified bacterial diseases
  • 1C4Z – Unspecified bacterial disease

Foundation entity

Gas gangrene – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1920227791

Part of: 01: Certain infectious or parasitic diseases