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A75.0 - Epidemic louse-borne typhus fever due to Rickettsia prowazekii


The ICD 10 Code for Epidemic louse-borne typhus fever due to Rickettsia prowazekii is listed as A75.0.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.

ICD 10 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: A75.0
Description: Epidemic louse-borne typhus fever due to Rickettsia prowazekii
  • Classical typhus (fever)
  • Epidemic (louse-borne) typhus
Diagnostic Related Groups
(MS-DRG v30.0)
867 - Other Infectious & Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses W Mcc
868 - Other Infectious & Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses W Cc
869 - Other Infectious & Parasitic Diseases Diagnoses W/o Cc/mcc
Chapter Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
Block Rickettsioses (A75-A79)
Parent A75 - Typhus fever
ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD 9 Dx Code: 080 - Louse-borne (epidemic) typhus
ICD-10-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of A75.0:
A75.1 - Recrudescent typhus [Brill's disease]
A75.2 - Typhus fever due to Rickettsia typhi
A75.3 - Typhus fever due to Rickettsia tsutsugamushi
A75.9 - Typhus fever, unspecified