As mentioned above, Janeway Immunobiology is probably the best immunology text out there. Kuby Immunology is also good.
It sounds like you are more interested in disease processes at the cellular level, so you may also want to try Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease or McCance and...
To add to the last post, the reason why subsequent infections with different serotypes can be much worse is due to the phenomenon of antibody-mediated enhancement.
As was already said, infection with one serotype will result in the production of antibodies that neutralize that specific...
I've heard of the studies described above, but I would imagine this would be much more difficult, if not close to impossible, to do with a eukaryotic cell since we would be talking about several chromosomes packaged with histones, etc. instead of a single bacterial chromosome. I'm not sure if...
The oral polio vaccine is a live attenuated vaccine, meaning it contains live virus passaged through cells or another organism so that it is no longer pathogenic to humans. When an individual receives this vaccine, some of the attenuated virus is passed in the feces.
My understanding is that...