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The 261 participants completed a questionnaire on demographics, intensity of occupational swine livestock contact and glove use during handling animals and their secretions. Participants' blood samples were tested for HEV, <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>A.\u00a0suum<\/jats:italic> seropositivity and nasal swabs cultured for MRSA. We compared swine veterinarians (defined as &gt;3 swine livestock visits\/week) to non\u2010swine veterinarians (\u22643 swine livestock visits\/week) with regard to the outcomes through calculating prevalence ratio (PR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). Furthermore, the relationship between occupational swine livestock contact and the study outcomes was examined by age (&lt;\/\u226555\u00a0years) and glove usage. The prevalence of nasal MRSA colonization was 13.4% (95% CI: 9.3\u201317.6), of HEV seropositivity 20.8% (95% CI: 15.8\u201325.7) and <jats:italic>A.\u00a0suum<\/jats:italic> seropositivity 44% (95% CI: 37.7\u201350.2). The highest anti\u2010leptospiral antibodies titres were 1:200 (<jats:italic>L.\u00a0hebdomadis<\/jats:italic>) and 1:100 (<jats:italic>L.\u00a0autumnalis, L.\u00a0caicola<\/jats:italic>) found in three non\u2010swine veterinarians. Compared to non\u2010swine veterinarians, swine veterinarians were 1.9 (95% CI: 1.0\u20133.4) and 1.5 (95%CI: 1.0\u20132.3) times more likely HEV seropositive and <jats:italic>A.\u00a0suum<\/jats:italic> seropositive, respectively, and 4.8 (95%CI: 2.5; 9.3) times more likely nasally colonized with MRSA. Among glove\u2010using veterinarians, occupational swine contact was no longer a determinant for HEV seropositivity (PR 1.6; 95% CI: 0.8\u20132.9). Similar was found for <jats:italic>A.\u00a0suum<\/jats:italic> seropositivity, which was no longer associated with occupational swine livestock contact in the subgroup of glove using, \u226555\u2010year\u2010old veterinarians (PR: 1.07; 95% CI: 0.4\u20133.3). Our findings indicate that &gt;3 occupational swine livestock visits per week is associated with HEV and <jats:italic>A.\u00a0suum<\/jats:italic> seropositivity and nasal MRSA colonization and that glove use may play a putative preventive role in acquiring HEV and <jats:italic>A.\u00a0suum<\/jats:italic>. Further analytical epidemiological studies have to prove the causality of these associations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/zph.12633","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,16]],"date-time":"2019-08-16T12:35:21Z","timestamp":1565958921000},"page":"842-851","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Occupational swine exposure and Hepatitis E virus, <i>Leptospira, Ascaris suum<\/i> seropositivity and MRSA colonization in Austrian veterinarians, 2017\u20132018\u2014A cross\u2010sectional study"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"66","author":[{"given":"Karin","family":"Taus","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) Vienna Austria"},{"name":"European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Stockholm 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