Actinomycetoma

Description

Actinomycetoma is a chronic progressive subcutaneous infection caused by implantation of aerobic branching actinomycetes through a skin wound. These organisms are filamentous bacteria which live as saprophytes in soil or on plants; the commonest infecting agents are Nocardia brasiliensis, Actinomadura madurae and Streptomyces somaliensis. The earliest stage of infection is a firm painless nodule but with time the whole area becomes hard and swollen with multiple papules, pustules and draining sinuses on the skin surface. Extension to underlying bones and joints can result in gross deformity.

Index terms

Actinomycetoma
Actinomycotic Madura foot
Actinomycotic mycetoma

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Mycetoma due to filamentous bacteria
Actinomycetoma due to Actinomadura species
Actinomadura Actinomycetoma
Actinomycetoma due to Streptomyces species
Actinomycetoma due to Nocardia species

Inclusions

Mycetoma due to filamentous bacteria

Excludes

1F29 – Eumycetoma

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
1C42 – Melioidosis
1C44 – Non-pyogenic bacterial infections of the skin
1C45 – Toxic shock syndrome
1C4Y – Other specified bacterial diseases
1C4Z – Unspecified bacterial disease

Foundation entity

Actinomycetoma – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/168432503

Part of: 01: Certain infectious or parasitic diseases