Lenka Betášová

Ing. Lenka Betášová

Position: research assistant
Research topics: molecular diagnostics of pathogens
Department: External research facility Valtice
Phone: +420 519 352 961
E-mail: betasovaivb.cz

Research interests

• microbiological methods used in the study of zoonotic pathogens.

Publications

Blažejová H., Šebesta O., Rettich F., Mendel J., Čabanová V., Miterpáková M., Betášová L., Peško J., Hubálek Z., Kampen H., Rudolf I.: Cryptic species Anopheles daciae (Diptera: Culicidae) found in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Parasitology Research 117 (2018) 315-321.

Hubálek Z., Juřicová Z., Straková P., Blažejová H., Betášová L., Rudolf I.: Serological survey for West Nile virus in wild artiodactyls, Southern Moravia (Czech Republic), Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 17 (2017) 654-657.

Rudolf I., Betášová L., Blažejová H., Venclíková K., Straková P., Šebesta O., Mendel J., Bakonyi T., Schaffner F., Nowotny N., Hubálek Z.: West Nile virus in overwintering mosquitoes, central Europe, Parasites & Vectors 10 (2017) .

Rudolf I., Betášová L., Bischof V., Venclíková K., Blažejová H., Mendel J., Hubálek Z., Kosoy M.: Molecular survey of arthropod-borne pathogens in sheep keds (Melophagus ovinus), Central Europe, Parasitology Research 115 (2016) 3679-3682.

Rudolf I., Venclíková K., Blažejová H., Betášová L., Mendel J., Hubálek Z., Parola P.: First report of Rickettsia raoultii and Rickettsia helvetica in Dermacentor reticulatus ticks from the Czech Republic, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 7 (2016) 1222-1224.

Venclíková K., Mendel J., Betášová L., Blažejová H., Jedličková P., Straková P., Hubálek Z., Rudolf I.: Neglected tick-borne pathogens in the Czech Republic, 2011–2014, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 7 (2016) 107-112.

Kříž B., Hubálek Z., Malý M., Daniel M., Straková P., Betášová L.: 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 (2015) 489-493.

Rudolf I., Šebesta O., Straková P., Betášová L., Blažejová H., Venclíková K., Seidel B., Tóth S., Hubálek Z., Schaffner F.: 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 (2015) 364-365.

Rudolf I., Bakonyi T., Šebesta O., Mendel J., Peško J., Betášová L., Blažejová H., Venclíková K., Straková P., Nowotny N., Hubálek Z.: Co-circulation of Usutu virus and West Nile virus in a reed bed ecosystem, Parasites & Vectors 8 (2015) 520.

Venclíková K., Mendel J., Betášová L., Hubálek Z., Rudolf I.: First evidence of Babesia venatorum and Babesia capreoli in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks in the Czech Republic, Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine 22 (2015) 212-214.

Hubálek Z., Rudolf I., Čapek M., Bakonyi T., Betášová L., Nowotny N.: Usutu Virus in Blackbirds (Turdus merula), Czech Republic, 2011-2012, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 61 (2014) 273-276.

Hubálek Z., Šebesta O., Peško J., Betášová L., Blažejová H., Venclíková K., Rudolf I.: 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 (2014) 1264-1267.

Rudolf I., Bakonyi T., Šebesta O., Mendel J., Peško J., Betášová L., Blažejová H., Venclíková K., Straková P., Nowotny N., Hubálek Z.: 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 (2014) .

Rudolf I., Šebesta O., Mendel J., Betášová L., Bocková E., Jedličková P., Venclíková K., Blažejová H., Šikutová S., Hubálek Z.: Zoonotic Dirofilaria repens (Nematoda: Filarioidea) in Aedes vexans mosquitoes, Czech Republic, Parasitology Research 113 (2014) 4663-4667.

Venclíková K., Rudolf I., Mendel J., Betášová L., Hubálek Z.: Rickettsiae in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks in the Czech Republic, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 5 (2014) 135-138.

Venclíková K., Betášová L., Šikutová S., Jedličková P., Hubálek Z., Rudolf I.: Human pathogenic borreliae in Ixodes ricinus ticks in natural and urban ecosystem (Czech Republic), Acta Parasitologica 59 (2014) 717-720.

Bocková E., Rudolf I., Kočišová A., Betášová L., Venclíková K., Mendel J., Hubálek Z.: Dirofilaria repens microfilariae in Aedes vexans mosquitoes in Slovakia, Parasitology Research 112 (2013) 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.: West Nile virus equine serosurvey in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 13 (2013) 733-738.

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