Although both PEDV and TGEV belong to the Alphacoronavirus genus and cause indistinguishable enteritis (Saif et al., 2012) , no recombinant virus between TGEV and PEDV had been found until recently (Boniotti et al., 2016) . This recombinant porcine enteric coronavirus, Italy/213306/2009 strain, has potential parental strains TGEV H16 strain (major, backbone) and classical PEDV CV777 strain (minor, S gene) (Fig. 1) . This virus was circulating in 2009-2012 in Italy.