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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 melioidosis and death from melioidosis.
Meaning of melioidosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, melioidosis means an illness caused by infection with the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei.
Note: Melioidosis may present as an acute, chronic or latent infection. Clinical manifestations may be local or systemic, and include pulmonary infection, septicaemia, meningoencephalitis and chronic suppurative infection.
(3)          While melioidosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM codes A24.1, A24.2, A24.3 or A24.4, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of melioidosis 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 melioidosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, melioidosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's melioidosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.