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{{ICD10 transition status | OldDxArticle = MRSA Colonization (without Infection) | CurrentStatus = reconciled | InitialEditorAssigned = not assigned }} == Additional Info == *As of 2019, the way that the microbiology laboratory indicates in its reports that an organism is resistant to the antistaphlococcal penicillins (of which the architype is methicillin, hence the phrase "Methicillin-resistant staph aureus") is to specifically identify that it is resistant to oxacillin, with a comment that "MRSA has been isolated". It will NOT list any other of this class of drugs. {{ICD10 nonstandard code | exception_type = CA | explanation = Antimicrobial resistance is not coded in standard ICD10. }} === List of Antimicrobials Relevant Here === Methicillin, nafcillin, oxacillin, cloxacillin, dicloxacillin, flucloxacillin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antistaphylococcal_penicillins] {{ICD10 Guideline MRSA}} {{ICD10 Guideline Infection}} {{ICD10 Guideline Combined dx AB resistance}} == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == {{ListICD10Category | categoryName = Antibiotic resistance}} == Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] == *[[Colonized with organism (not infected)]] == Related CCI Codes == * [[Isolation, infectious]] == Related Articles == {{Related Articles}} {{ICD10 footer}} {{EndPlaceHolder}}
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