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A man is admitted into the hospital and treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics for an infection caused by a gunshot wound to the abdomen. he subsequently contracts pseudomembranous colitis. which of these is the most likely reason this happened?

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The man has been contracted with pseudo membranous colitis which is the result of taking broad-spectrum antibiotics for an infection caused by a gunshot wound to the abdomen; this is because normal micro biota is wiped by the antibiotics resulting the overgrowth of Clostridium difficile in colon.
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