Free-living amoebas (FLA) are protozoan parasites that occasionally cause disease in humans after contact with contaminated water or soil. We describe a series of three cases of encephalitis in a family group with a fatal outcome that occurred in the Tumbes region between December 2019 and February 2020. Acan-thamoeba sp. was identified in the cerebrospinal fluid sample from case 1. All three cases had a history of entering a swimming pool months before the disease. In the Tumbes region there is no previous record of encephalitis due to FLA and its occurrence in a family cluster has never been reported before.
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Solís-Castro, M. E. (2021). Lethal encephalitis due to free-living amoebae in three members of a family, tumbes, Peru. Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica, 38(2), 291–295. https://doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2021.382.6754
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