1F64 Dracunculiasis

International Classification of Diseases for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, 11th Revision, v2024-01

A disease resulting from drinking water contaminated with water fleas infected with larvae of the nematode Dracunculus medinensis. It may take up to a year from ingestion of larvae for a mature gravid female worm to migrate to the skin and discharge immature larvae on contact with water. Dracunculiasis typically manifests as an intensely pruritic papule on a lower extremity from which part of the worm may emerge. Secondary pyogenic infection is common. This may be preceded by generalised symptoms such as fever, pruritus, urticaria and oedema.

inclusions

• Guinea worm infestation

synonyms

• Dracunculiasis
• Medina worm infestation
• Dracunculus medinensis infestation
• Guinea worm infestation
• dracontiasis
• Dracunculosis
• Dracunculiasis due to Dracunculus medinensis

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