| rickettsia felis infection in febrile children, ghana. | rickettsial infections are an underrecognized cause of febrile illness in sub-saharan africa. to evaluate the epidemiology and clinical features of rickettsial disease in pediatric patients in ghana, we screened blood samples from febrile children aged less than 15 years presenting to an outpatient department in ghana's ashanti region for the presence of rickettsial dna. we detected rickettsia felis in 7/470 (1.5%) blood samples, using two independent real-time polymerase chain reactions. no oth ... | 2017 | 28115672 |