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A patient was hospitalized after an automobile accident. The wounds became infected and the patient was treated with tobramycin, carbenicillin, and clindamycin. Five days after antibiotic therapy was initiated, the patient developed severe diarrhea and pseudomembranous enterocolitis. Antibioticassociated diarrhea and the more serious pseudomembranous enterocolitis can be caused by

AClostridium sordellii
BClostridium perfringens
CClostridium difficile
DS. aureus
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