Epidemic louse-borne typhus fever due to Rickettsia prowazekii
Billable / specific
A75.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Classical typhus (fever)
- Epidemic (louse-borne) typhus
Includes (from A75)
- diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-) (from A75)
- certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters (from A75)
- infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-) (from A75)
- infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39) (from A75)
- influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22) (from A75)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
Also known as
- Classical typhus (fever)
- Epidemic (louse-borne) typhus
- Fever, famine
- Hildenbrand's disease
- Myocarditis, in epidemic louse-borne typhus
- Tabardillo, louse-borne
- Typhus, classical
- Typhus, due to Rickettsia, prowazekii
- Typhus, epidemic
- Typhus, exanthematic NEC
- Typhus, exanthematicus SAI
- Typhus, louse-borne
Parent code
- A75Typhus feverHeader