A 41-year-old man from Son La Province, Vietnam, sought care for disseminated prurigo-like skin lesions from which nematode larvae were emerging. We morphologically and molecularly identified the larvae as Oxyspirura sp. Our findings confirm this nematode species as a zoonotic pathogen for emerging disease.
Keywords: 18S ribosomal DNA; Oxyspirura; Vietnam; avian eyeworm; cutaneous nematode infection; larvae; nematodiasis; parasites; pruritic lesions; skin infections; zoonoses.