MICR2209
Introduction to Infectious Diseases and Immunology
MICR2209 is rated by StudentVIP members:
Textbooks
Sell your textbook for MICR2209Prescott's Microbiology
Christopher J. Woolverton, Linda Sherwood, Joanne Willey
For sale by Anwen for $80
Notes
View all MICR2209 notesMICR2209 Comprehensive Unit Notes
Comprehensive, edited notes on the entire course content of MICR2209 (excluding labs). Contains some...
89 pages, 21370 words
MICR2209 Module 3: Fungi & Protist Diseases
Comprehensive notes on the third module of MICR2209. Useful for studying/ revision. Contains a lot o...
23 pages, 5049 words
MICR2209 Module 4: Viruses & Viral Diseases
Comprehensive notes on the fourth module of MICR2209. Useful for studying/ revision. Contains tables...
20 pages, 5281 words
MICR2209 Module 2: Bacteria & Bacterial Diseases + Antibiotics
Comprehensive notes on the second module of MICR2209. Useful for studying/ revision. Contains some t...
21 pages, 4495 words
MICR2209 Module 1: Immunology & the Immune System
Comprehensive notes on the first module of MICR2209. Useful for studying/ revision. Contains some ta...
24 pages, 6528 words
Tutors
Become a tutor for MICR2209Rob
$65 per hour
Tutoring open for Semester 2. Pathology, Chemistry, Biology, Microbiology, are you looking for a...
Nick
$50 per hour
Hi! My name is Nick and I have completed a Bachelor of Biomedical Science Degree. I am now workin...
Micky
$75 per hour
Hello my name is Michael. I graduated with a Double Bachelors of Biomedical Science in: Pathology an...
Alicia
$45 per hour
Hi, I'm Alicia. I'm currently doing a PhD in maternal and infant microbiome research, and have compl...
Reviews
For those doing microbiology as a major I found this unit far more enjoyable than MICR2208. The content is broken down into 4 topics: immunology, viral diseases, protozoan diseases and bacterial diseases. The lecture that primarily took the immunology and viruses topic was difficult to listen to and their slides were not very coherent. However the lecturers for the protozoan and bacteria topics were quite good. There are 3 wet labs focused on diagnostics of viruses, protozoans and bacteria which I found to be the highlight of the unit. Assessment wise this unit isn't intense, with no large assignment or essay, only online tests and an exam that are entirely multi-choice. Questions mainly test memorisation of the content. Personally I believe this unit is easier in general than other level 2 biomedical units, but still a step up from level 1 units. Given the assessment structure and interesting content, I think this unit is an alright elective or broadening unit for biomed students.
Anonymous, Semester 2, 2019
This unit was just "okay". I liked the lecturers (honestly Barbara Chang is just lovely) but the labs were so uninvolved; class sizes were huge, no actual hands-on work, just observation and writing in worksheets - although the malaria guy was really interesting. So much of the unit is rote memorisation that it's honestly insane. VERY few concepts (some immune, some viral mechanisms), almost all just memorising names of microbes and names of associated diseases. Hard to find that interesting. The fungal section was the laziest, most poorly run crap -- no lectures, just a reading uploaded online from a textbook and some terrible "interactive quiz" that bugged out and wouldn't let you access all content. PATH2220 probably had similar enough content to this unit but was just run so much better and as a result was infinitely more interesting. Disappointing unit.
Anonymous, Semester 2, 2015
Learning about the immune system can be very complicated so prepare to work hard in this unit particularly in the beginning. Keep hold of your notes if you are doing MICR3340 because a lot of the topics are the same just in more depth. Labs were pretty disappointing after MICR2208 with only computer based ones presented (no wet labs).