Ing. Lenka Betášová

Position PhD student
Direction molecular diagnostics of pathogens

+420 519 352 961

Research interests

  • microbiological methods used in the study of zoonotic pathogens.

Bachelor thesis

A meta-analysis of the effects of geolocator application on passerine birds (supervisor P. Procházka).

Diploma thesis

Carry-over effects of the non-breeding ground quality to the subsequent phases of the annual cycle (supervisor P. Procházka).

Publications

2020

Rudolf I, Blažejová H, Mendel J, Straková P, Šebesta O, Rettich F, Čabanová V, Miterpáková M, Betášová L, Peško J, Barbušinová E, McKee C, Osikowicz L, Šikutová S, Hubálek Z, Kosoy M (2020). Bartonella species in medically important mosquitoes, Central Europe. Parasitology Research, 119: 2713-2717.
Šikutová S, Dočkal P, Straková P, Mendel J, Šebesta O, Betášová L, Blažejová H, Hubálek Z, Rudolf I (2020). First record of mosquito-borne Kyzylagach virus in Central Europe. Viruses, 12:1205 1445.

2019

Rudolf I, Rettich F, Betášová L, Imrichová K, Mendel J, Hubálek Z, Šikutová S (2019). West Nile virus (linie 2) poprvé detekován v komárech v jižních Čechách: nová endemická oblast?. Epidemiologie, Mikrobiologie, Imunologie, 68: 150-1531210 .

2018

Blažejová H, Šebesta O, Rettich F, Mendel J, Čabanová V, Miterpáková M, Betášová L, Peško J, Hubálek Z, Kampen H, Rudolf I (2018). Cryptic species Anopheles daciae (Diptera: Culicidae) found in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Parasitology Research, 117: 315-321.
Rudolf I, Blažejová H, Šebesta O, Mendel J, Peško J, Betášová L, Straková P, Šikutová S, Hubálek Z (2018). West Nile virus (linie 2) v komárech na jižní Moravě – očekávání prvních autochtonních lidských případů. Epidemiologie, Mikrobiologie, Imunologie, 67: 44-461210 .

2017

Hubálek Z, Juřicová Z, Straková P, Blažejová H, Betášová L, Rudolf I (2017). Serological survey for West Nile virus in wild artiodactyls, Southern Moravia (Czech Republic). Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 17: 654-657.
Rudolf I, Betášová L, Blažejová H, Venclíková K, Straková P, Šebesta O, Mendel J, Bakonyi T, Schaffner F, Nowotny N, Hubálek Z (2017). West Nile virus in overwintering mosquitoes, central Europe. Parasites & Vectors, 10: 452.

2016

Rudolf I, Betášová L, Bischof V, Venclíková K, Blažejová H, Mendel J, Hubálek Z, Kosoy M (2016). Molecular survey of arthropod-borne pathogens in sheep keds (Melophagus ovinus), Central Europe. Parasitology Research, 115: 3679-3682.
Rudolf I, Venclíková K, Blažejová H, Betášová L, Mendel J, Hubálek Z, Parola P (2016). First report of Rickettsia raoultii and Rickettsia helvetica in Dermacentor reticulatus ticks from the Czech Republic. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 7: 1222-1224.
Venclíková K, Mendel J, Betášová L, Blažejová H, Jedličková P, Straková P, Hubálek Z, Rudolf I (2016). Neglected tick-borne pathogens in the Czech Republic, 2011–2014. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 7: 107-112.

2015

Kříž B, Hubálek Z, Malý M, Daniel M, Straková P, Betášová L (2015). Results of the screening of Tick-Borne Encephalitis virus antibodies in human sera from eight districts collected two decades apart. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 15: 489-493.
Rudolf I, Šebesta O, Straková P, Betášová L, Blažejová H, Venclíková K, Seidel B, Tóth S, Hubálek Z, Schaffner F (2015). Overwintering of Uranotaenia unguiculata adult females in central Europe: a possible way of persistence of the putative new lineage of West Nile virus?. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 31: 364-365.
Rudolf I, Bakonyi T, Šebesta O, Mendel J, Peško J, Betášová L, Blažejová H, Venclíková K, Straková P, Nowotny N, Hubálek Z (2015). Co-circulation of Usutu virus and West Nile virus in a reed bed ecosystem. Parasites & Vectors, 8: 520.
Venclíková K, Mendel J, Betášová L, Hubálek Z, Rudolf I (2015). First evidence of Babesia venatorum and Babesia capreoli in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks in the Czech Republic. Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 22: 212-214.

2014

Hubálek Z, Šebesta O, Peško J, Betášová L, Blažejová H, Venclíková K, Rudolf I (2014). Isolation of Tahyna virus (California Encephalitis Group) from Anopheles hyrcanus (Diptera, Culicidae), a mosquito species new to, and expanding in, Central Europe. Journal of Medical Entomology, 51: 1264-1267.
Hubálek Z, Rudolf I, Čapek M, Bakonyi T, Betášová L, Nowotny N (2014). Usutu Virus in Blackbirds (Turdus merula), Czech Republic, 2011-2012. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 61: 273-276.
Rudolf I, Bakonyi T, Šebesta O, Mendel J, Peško J, Betášová L, Blažejová H, Venclíková K, Straková P, Nowotny N, Hubálek Z (2014). West Nile virus lineage 2 isolated from Culex modestus mosquitoes in the Czech Republic, 2013: expansion of the European WNV endemic area to the North?. Eurosurveillance, 19: pii=20867.
Rudolf I, Šebesta O, Mendel J, Betášová L, Bocková E, Jedličková P, Venclíková K, Blažejová H, Šikutová S, Hubálek Z (2014). Zoonotic Dirofilaria repens (Nematoda: Filarioidea) in Aedes vexans mosquitoes, Czech Republic. Parasitology Research, 113: 4663-4667.
Venclíková K, Betášová L, Šikutová S, Jedličková P, Hubálek Z, Rudolf I (2014). Human pathogenic borreliae in Ixodes ricinus ticks in natural and urban ecosystem (Czech Republic). Acta Parasitologica, 59: 717-720.
Venclíková K, Rudolf I, Mendel J, Betášová L, Hubálek Z (2014). Rickettsiae in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks in the Czech Republic. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 5: 135-138.

2013

Bocková E, Rudolf I, Kočišová A, Betášová L, Venclíková K, Mendel J, Hubálek Z (2013). Dirofilaria repens microfilariae in Aedes vexans mosquitoes in Slovakia. Parasitology Research, 112: 3465-3470.
Hubálek Z, Ludvíková E, Jahn P, Treml F, Rudolf I, Svobodová P, Šikutová S, Betášová L, Bíreš J, Mojžíš M, Tinák M, Boldižár M, Citsoňová G, Staššíková Z (2013). West Nile virus equine serosurvey in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 13: 733-738.

2012

Šebesta O, Rudolf I, Betášová L, Peško J, Hubálek Z (2012). An invasive mosquito species Aedes albopictus found in the Czech Republic, 2012. Eurosurveillance, 17: 20301.