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Ian M Mackay, PhD

Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Pathology Queensland
Verified email at uq.edu.au
Cited by 13936

Real-time PCR in virology

IM Mackay, KE Arden, A Nitsche - Nucleic acids research, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in molecular diagnostics has increased to
the point where it is now accepted as the gold standard for detecting nucleic acids from a …

Guideline to reference gene selection for quantitative real-time PCR

A Radonić, S Thulke, IM Mackay, O Landt… - Biochemical and …, 2004 - Elsevier
Today, quantitative real-time PCR is the method of choice for rapid and reliable quantification
of mRNA transcription. However, for an exact comparison of mRNA transcription in …

[PDF][PDF] Staging in rhinosinusitis

VJ Lund, IS Mackay - Rhinology, 1993 - researchgate.net
SUMMARY A simple staging system for chronic rhinosinusitis is presented which is intended
for use in the assessment of disease extent and clinical management.

Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in an L2: A review

T Piske, IRA MacKay, JE Flege - Journal of phonetics, 2001 - Elsevier
This article had two aims: to provide a thorough review of the existing literature examining
overall degree of foreign accent in a second language (L2), and to present a new foreign …

Factors affecting strength of perceived foreign accent in a second language

JE Flege, MJ Munro, IRA MacKay - … Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 1995 - pubs.aip.org
This study assessed the relation between non‐native subjects’ age of learning (AOL) English
and the overall degree of perceived foreign accent in their production of English sentences…

[HTML][HTML] Real-time PCR in the microbiology laboratory

IM Mackay - Clinical microbiology and infection, 2004 - Elsevier
Use of PCR in the field of molecular diagnostics has increased to the point where it is now
accepted as the standard method for detecting nucleic acids from a number of sample and …

UKPDS 25: autoantibodies to islet-cell cytoplasm and glutamic acid decarboxylase for prediction of insulin requirement in type 2 diabetes

…, I Stratton, V Horton, S Manley, P Zimmet, IR Mackay… - The Lancet, 1997 - thelancet.com
Background Autoantibodies to islet-cell cytoplasm (ICA) and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GADA)
can occur in apparently typical, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (type 2). We …

Interaction between the native and second language phonetic subsystems

JE Flege, C Schirru, IRA MacKay - Speech communication, 2003 - Elsevier
The underlying premise of this study was that the two phonetic subsystems of a bilingual
interact. The study tested the hypothesis that the vowels a bilingual produces in a second …

Antibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase reveal latent autoimmune diabetes mellitus in adults with a non—insulin-dependent onset of disease

…, PZ Zimmet, MJ Rowley, W Knowles, IR Mackay - Diabetes, 1993 - Am Diabetes Assoc
The classification of adults with diabetes mellitus can be invalidated by patients who initially
present as NIDDM but who later become frankly insulin dependent. In some of these, the …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of a novel polyomavirus from patients with acute respiratory tract infections

AM Gaynor, MD Nissen, DM Whiley, IM Mackay… - PLoS …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
We report the identification of a novel polyomavirus present in respiratory secretions from
human patients with symptoms of acute respiratory tract infection. The virus was initially …