Assertion: Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae are responsible for causing infectious disease in humans.

Reason: A healthy person acquires the infection by inhaling the droplets/aerosols released by the infected person or even using utensils used by an infected person.

Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

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Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

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Assertion is true but the reason is false

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Both assertion and reason are false

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The correct option is A Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
Pneumonia can be caused by two most common causative agents namely- Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae.
Every disease has a different mode of infection, a person can acquire pneumonia caused by these microbes by inhaling the droplets/aerosols released by an infected person during coughing and sneezing and can also be transmitted by sharing utensils like glasses, plates with an infected person.

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