Recrudescent typhus [Brill's disease]
Billable / specific
A75.1 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
- Brill-Zinsser disease
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
- Brill-Zinsser disease
- Brill
- Disease, diseased, Brill's
- Disease, diseased, Brill-Zinsser
- Infection, infected, infective, typhus, recrudescent
- Recrudescent typhus
- Typhus, due to Rickettsia, prowazekii, recrudescent
- Typhus, exanthematicus SAI, brillii SAI
- Typhus, recrudescent
Parent code
- A75Typhus feverHeader