A75.2 Typhus fever due to Rickettsia typhi

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026. Acts as a Complication or Comorbidity (CC) as a secondary diagnosis.

Applicable to

• Murine (flea-borne) typhus

Applies from A75 Typhus fever

Excludes1 (never code together)

• rickettsiosis due to Ehrlichia sennetsu (A79.81)

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 867-869 in MDC 18.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 081.0 Murine (endemic) typhus

Code annotations containing back-references to A75.2

Back-references to A75.2

• Code First: I41 Myocarditis in diseases classified elsewhere ("typhus (A75.0-A75.9)")

Diagnosis Index entries for A75.2

• Body, bodies › Mooser's
• Disease, diseased › Maxcy's
• Fever (inanition) (of unknown origin) (persistent) (with chills) (with rigor) › Mexican
• Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) › typhus › flea-borne
• Maxcy's disease
• Mooser-Neill reaction
• Mooser's bodies
• Tabardillo › flea-borne
• Typhus (fever) › due to Rickettsia › typhi
• Typhus (fever) › endemic (flea-borne)
• Typhus (fever) › exanthematicus SAI › mexicanus SAI
• Typhus (fever) › exanthematicus SAI › typhus murinus
• Typhus (fever) › flea-borne
• Typhus (fever) › Mexican
• Typhus (fever) › murine
• Typhus (fever) › rat
• Typhus (fever) › shop (of Malaysia)

Nearby codes

• A75 Typhus fever
• A75.0 Epidemic louse-borne typhus fever due to Rickettsia prowazekii
• A75.1 Recrudescent typhus [Brill's disease]
• A75.2 Typhus fever due to Rickettsia typhi (this code)
• A75.3 Typhus fever due to Rickettsia tsutsugamushi
• A75.9 Typhus fever, unspecified