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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about tuberculosis and death from tuberculosis.
Meaning of tuberculosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, tuberculosis:
(a)          means an infection caused by bacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, including M. tuberculosis, M. africanum, M. canettii, M. caprae, M. microti, M. orygis, M. pinnipedi and M. bovis (including Bacille Calmette-Guérin); and
(b)          includes:
(i)            latent tuberculosis;
(ii)         pulmonary tuberculosis; and
(iii)       extrapulmonary tuberculosis; and
(c)          excludes infection caused by atypical mycobacteria such as M. avium, M. intracellulare, M. kansasii, M. marinum and M. ulcerans.
Note: The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex is a genetically related group of Mycobacterium species that cause tuberculosis.
(3)          While tuberculosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM codes A15, A16, A17, A18 and A19, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of tuberculosis is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from tuberculosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, tuberculosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's tuberculosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.