Intestinal infectious diseases

Intestinal infectious diseases are the group of gut infections that the World Health Organization sets out as the first block of Chapter I of the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases, covering codes A00 to A09. The block gathers cholera, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, other salmonella infections, shigellosis, other bacterial intestinal infections, other bacterial foodborne intoxications, amoebiasis, other protozoal intestinal diseases, viral intestinal infections such as rotaviral, noroviral and adenoviral enteritis, and a closing heading for other gastroenteritis and colitis of infectious and unspecified origin. Bacteria, protozoa and viruses are all represented. It is a classification grouping and not one single disease, and each heading is divided further into more specific codes for the organism or the form of illness.