INTRODUCTION Humans are exposed to various auditory stimuli from the environment, ranging from the sounds of nature (sounds made by plants, animals, wind, thunder, rain) to sounds made by other humans and society in general, which include music, mechanical and electrical equipment, traffic,...

INTRODUCTION It is fairly easy to answer the question as to what has been the main, and often only topic of discussion, in all the languages of the world, in the past year, with only one word - COVID-19. The pandemic caused by the new corona virus SARS-CoV-2 has changed people’s lives as well as...

Dear Editors, Infectious diseases have spread primarily in the form of epidemics throughout the history of mankind and pathogenic microorganisms have long been held responsible for their occurrence. However, pathogenic microorganisms make up only a small portion of the microbiome of humans,...