Table 1. An overview of the clinical symptoms associated with the most common pathogens associated with dairy foodborne diseases (Oliver et al., 2011).

Pathogen	Clinical symptoms
Campylobacter jejuni	Diarrhoea (occasionally haemorrhagic), fever, dizziness, vomiting, gastrointestinal pain
Listeria monocytogenes	Diarrhoea, flu-like symptoms, miscarriages, meningitis
Salmonella spp.	Vomiting, headache, diarrhoea, flu-like symptoms, gastrointestinal pain
Staphylococcus aureus	Vomiting, diarrhoea
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli	Haemorrhagic diarrhoea, gastrointestinal pain, vomiting, haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), kidney failure, fever, death
Vibrio parahaemolyticus	Vomiting, diarrhoea, gastrointestinal pain, fever, chills
Yersina enterocolitica	Fever, diarrhoea, vomiting, gastrointestinal pain