1C42

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Melioidosis

Description

A disease caused by the saprophytic environmental gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei which is found in soil or water in humid tropical regions of the world, especially South-East Asia and northern Australia. It has protean manifestations ranging from fulminant septicaemia with fatal outcome to chronic low grade infection.

Index terms

  • Melioidosis
  • Infection due to Burkholderia pseudomallei NOS
  • Infection due to Pseudomonas pseudomallei NOS
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  • Stanton disease
  • Whitmore disease
  • infection due to Whitmore bacillus
  • infection due to burkholderia pseudomallei
  • infection due to malleomyces pseudomallei
  • infection due to pseudomonas pseudomallei
  • pseudoglanders
  • Acute or fulminant melioidosis
  • acute melioidosis
  • fulminating melioidosis
  • Acute pulmonary melioidosis
  • Melioidosis pneumonia
  • Acute parotiditis due to melioidosis
  • Septic shock due to fulminant melioidosis
  • Subacute or chronic melioidosis
  • chronic melioidosis
  • subacute melioidosis
  • Subacute pulmonary melioidosis
  • Cutaneous and subcutaneous melioidosis
  • Skin abscess due to Melioidosis
  • Chronic pulmonary melioidosis

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
  • 1C16 – Gas gangrene
  • 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
  • 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

Melioidosis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/2129350166

Allowed postcoordination axes

Part of: 01: Certain infectious or parasitic diseases