B05

Clinical Information

• A highly contagious infectious disease caused by morbillivirus, common among children but also seen in the nonimmune of any age, in which the virus enters the respiratory tract via droplet nuclei and multiplies in the epithelial cells, spreading throughout the mononuclear phagocyte system.

• A highly contagious viral infection caused by the measles virus. Symptoms appear 8-12 days after exposure and include a rash, cough, fever and muscle pains that can last 4-7 days. Measles vaccines are available to provide prophylaxis, usually combined with mumps and rubella vaccines mmr).

• Childhood viral disease manifested as acute febrile illness associated with cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, spots on the buccal mucosa, and rash starting on the head and neck and spreading to the rest of the body.

• Measles is an infectious disease caused by a virus. It spreads easily from person to person. The main symptom of measles is an itchy skin rash. The rash often starts on the head and moves down the body. Other symptoms include

Details

• Dawson’s inclusion body encephalitis

• Van Bogaert’s sclerosing leukoencephalopathy

• B05.0

  Measles complicated by encephalitis

• B05.1

  Measles complicated by meningitis

• B05.2

  Measles complicated by pneumonia

• B05.3

  Measles complicated by otitis media

• B05.4

  Measles with intestinal complications

• B05.8

  Measles with other complications

• B05.81

  Measles keratitis and keratoconjunctivitis

• B05.89

  Other measles complications

• B05.9

  Measles without complication