Catalog

Systemic bacterial infection affecting skin

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

Systemic bacterial infection affecting skin – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/786506553

Skin involvement associated with bacteraemia or internal foci of bacterial infection (e.g. endocarditis). The skin manifestations may represent the first sign of fulminant life-threatening infection as in meningococcal septicaemia.