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Why would your epstein virus igg and igm go up. the igm is still negative but the igg is 5.14 showinga high reading . in august it was 3.44?

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Dr. Michael Ein answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

See below: The viral capsid igg antibody stays positive permanently after ebv infection. The VCA igm is only elevated during early ebv infection then rapidly reverts to negative.

Answered 2/13/2015

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