Assertion: c. psittaci | /r/HasProperty | cultured
Facets:
value: from respiratory secretions
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: A patient is considered to have a confirmed case of psittacosis if clinical illness is compatible with psittacosis and the case is laboratory confirmed by one of three methods: a) C. psittaci is cultured from respiratory secretions; b) antibody against C. psittaci is increased by fourfold or greater (to a reciprocal titer of 32 between paired acute- and convalescent-phase serum specimens collected at least 2 weeks apart) as demonstrated by complement fixation (CF) or microimmunofluorescence (MIF); or c) immunoglobulin M antibody is detected against C. psittaci by MIF (to a reciprocal titer of 16).
text: All French farms were culture positive while C. psittaci was cultured from the lungs of 80% of examined Belgian farms.