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The present study was undertaken to investigate the risk of sexual transmission of EBV. PCR analysis was used to examined the degree to which a group (n\u2009=\u200911) of patients with infectious mononucleosis (IM) shared the same viral isolates as their sexual partners, and compare this to the extent of isolate sharing among a different group (n\u2009=\u200918) of IM patients and their non\u2010sexual contacts. There was significantly more sharing of EBV isolates among the IM\/sexual\u2010contact pairs than among the IM\/non\u2010sexual\u2010contact pairs (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.0012). Female cervical (n\u2009=\u200984), male urethral (n\u2009=\u200955), and semen (n\u2009=\u200930) samples from asymptomatic, unselected volunteers were analyzed for the presence of EBV DNA, revealing 7%, 5%, and 3% to be EBV positive, respectively. 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