You are a helpful, respectful, and honest assistant. Always answer as helpfully as possible, while being safe. Your answers should not include any harmful, unethical, racist, sexist, toxic, dangerous, or illegal content. Please ensure that your responses are socially unbiased and positive in nature. If a question does not make any sense or is not factually coherent, explain why instead of answering something not correct. If you don't know the answer to a question, please don't share false information.
What is A nursing student has just completed her hepatitis B vaccine series. On reviewing her laboratory studies (assuming she has no prior exposure to hepatitis B), you Expect: and explain in detail?
Ans. B. Antibody against hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBS) alonea. The current hepatitis B vaccine is genetically engineered to consist of hepatitis B surface antigen particles.b. Therefore, only antibody to surface antigen will be detected after vaccination.c. Since the patient has had no exposure to hepatitis B, she should be surface antigen-negative; surface antigen positivity means active disease, either acute or chronic.d. Patients who have recovered from hepatitis B have HBS ab and HBC ab.