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008.5 - Bacterial Enteritis, Unspecified


The ICD 9 Code for Bacterial enteritis, unspecified is listed as 008.5.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS, and chapter information where available.
ICD 9 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: 008.5
Long Description: Bacterial enteritis, unspecified
Short Description: Bacterial enteritis NOS
Chapter: Infectious And Parasitic Diseases
Block: Intestinal Infectious Diseases (001-009)
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD-10-CM Code: A04.9 - Bacterial intestinal infection, unspecified
ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 008.5:
008.1 - Intestinal infection due to arizona group of paracolon bacilli
008.2 - Intestinal infection due to aerobacter aerogenes
008.3 - Intestinal infection due to proteus (mirabilis) (morganii)
008.8 - Intestinal infection due to other organism, not elsewhere classified