| rickettsia massiliae infection and senlat syndrome in romania. | the purpose of this prospective study is to describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of rickettsioses in romania, where only rickettsia conorii is known by clinicians but new rickettsia species have been identified recently in ticks. a total of eight patients, including a nine-year-old child, were included between june 2011 and june 2012, in the hospital for infectious and tropical diseases, bucharest, romania. seven cases presented during summer months and one in spring. six pa ... | 2016 | 27034192 |