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A woman who impos food from Mexico and spends several months per year in rural Mexico had to have a compound leg fracture pinned and set in Mexico and has returned 3 days later. She now has signs of acute appendicitis and is taken to surgery in Houston. When her appendix is removed, it is found to contain a light-colored, 20.5-cm long roundworm and bile-stained knobby eggs consistent with Ascaris. How did she acquire this infection?

AIngestion of water containing filariform larvae
BSkin penetration by filariform larvae
CSkin penetration by rhabditiform larvae
DIngestion of food contaminated with the eggs
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