ICD-11 MMS

01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases

Other bacterial diseases  (1C10-1C4Z)

1C18 Brazilian purpuric fever

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


A disease affecting children, caused by an infection with the gram-negative bacteria Haemophilus aegyptius. This disease is characterised by fever, nausea, vomiting, purpuric lesions, and sepsis, that is preceded by conjunctivitis. Transmission may be by mechanical transmission from infected eye gnats, contact with discharge from infected individuals, or fomites used near the eyes. Confirmation is by identification of Haemophilus influenzae from blood.

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