--as it was one of the things investigated during the most acute phases of neuropathy.

Without getting ridiculously complicated--the subject is very complex, as there are a number of different titres that need to be tested--your EBV results are very typical of most of the adult population in the Western world. The Epstein Barr Virus (technically, human herpes virus 4) infects at least 95% of us by age 30. The large majority of us get infected by it in childhood when the symptoms resemble a bad cold--it is not always associated with mononucleosis. After infection the virus is immortalized in the pharynx, lying dormant in most people, unless some trigger or compromised immune condition allows it to reactivate and spread.

Because of this, almost all of us will show a positive response to an assay of the EBV IgG EBNA (Epstein Barr nuclear titre) and the Epstein Barr VCC IgG (virus capsule antigen). These just mean that the body was once infected with Epstein Barr. The more interesting results are the IgM and IgA titres for what is called the early antigen--these may indicate a reactivation. But these are not tests that most labs do automatically unless asked--I had mine done through a specialty lab.

This may be the simplest explanation I've seen (and it's not that simple), but look particularly at the chart:

http://labtestsonline.org/understand...s/ebv/tab/test