| Agent | Incubation time | Fashions of transmission | Duration of disease |
| Adenovirus | 8 - 10 days | Fecal-oral-respiratory | 8 days |
| Campylobader jejuni | 3 - 5 days | Food ingestion, direct contact | 2 - 10 days |
| Cryptosporidium | 2 - 14 days | Food or water ingestion, direct and indirect contact | Weeks to months |
| Escherichia coli (enterotoxigenic―ETEC) | 16 - 72 h | Food or water ingestion | 3 - 5 days |
| E. coli (enteropathogenic―EPEC) | 16 - 48 h | Food or water ingestion, direct and indirect contact | 5 - 12 days |
| E. coli (enterohemorrhagic―EHEC) | 72 - 120 h | Food/ingestion, direct or indirect contact | 2 - 15 days |
| Giardia lamblia | 7 - 14 days | Food or water ingestion, direct and indirect contact | Weeks to months |
| Norovirus | 24 - 48 h | Food or water ingestion, direct and indirect contact, aerosol? | 1 - 2 days |
| Rotavirus | 24 - 72 h | Direct and indirect contact | 4 - 6 days |
| Hepatitis A | 30 - 60 days | Fecal-oral, fomites | 2 - 4 weeks |
| Salmonella | 16 - 72 h | Food ingestion, direct and indirect contact | 2 - 7 days |
| Shigella | 16 - 72 h | Food or water ingestion, direct and indirect contact | 2 - 7 days |
| Yersinia enterocolitica | 3 - 7 days | Food ingestion, direct contact | 1 - 3 weeks |