1 In men with established coronary heart disease, consumption of 1-14 alcoholic drinks per week, including wine, doesn't seem to have any effect on heart disease or all-cause mortality compared with men who drink less than one drink per week.
Terminology [edit]. Although organisms such as bacteria function as parasites, the usage of the term parasitic disease is usually more restricted. The three main types of organisms causing these conditions are protozoa (causing protozoan infection), helminths (helminthiasis), and ectoparasites.ome parasites like Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium spp. can cause disease directly, but other organisms can cause disease by the toxins that they produce.
Parasitic diseases can involve the central nervous system (CNS) with multiple clinical presentations. The most common parasitic infection of the CNS is cysticercosis; other less frequent infections are toxoplasmosis, echinococcosis, and schistosomiasis.his form of the illness commonly occurs in isolation, but it may be associated with parenchymal disease (24%). The most common site of intraventricular cysticercosis is the fourth ventricle (53%), followed by the third ventricle (27%), the lateral ventricle (11%), and the aqueduct (9%).