Clostridium difficile can be a particularly dangerous bacterium because
A) it produces exospores with a particularly resilient cell wall.
B) it has resistance to ampicillin and kanamycin.
C) it mutates rapidly.
D) it produces endospores, a toxin and has inherent antibiotic resistance.
E) it produces exospores, a low pH resistant toxin and can accept multiple plasmids.
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