Neotropical Bats from Costa Rica harbour Diverse Coronaviruses.

"sequences found (one each from c perspicillata a jamaicensis g soricina and c castanea ) were submitted to genbank (accession numbers kc779225 kc779226 km215146 and km215147 respectively)."

"Conflict of Interest The authors disclose no conflict of interest."

"We thank all the students who helped with capturing the bats, Carlos Vargas for valuable technical assistance and Emmanuel Rojas of Reserva Biologica Tirimbina. We thank Dr. Victor Hugo Sancho from the Rabies Control Program from the Department of Agriculture of Costa Rica (MAG). We also thank Dr. Mirko Trilling from the Institute for Virology, Essen, Germany, Dr. Cesar Rodriguez Sanchez from the University of Costa Rica and Dr. Christine Carrington from the University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago for critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by the University of Costa Rica Project VI‐803‐B2‐285."