Bacillus anthracis Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980) Okinaka R.T. Price E.P. Wolken S.R. Gruendike J.M. Chung W.K. Pearson T. Xie G. Munk C. Hill K.K. Challacombe J. Ivins B.E. Schupp J.M. Beckstrom-Sternberg S.M. Friedlander A. Keim P. An attenuated strain of Bacillus anthracis (CDC 684) has a large chromosomal inversion and altered growth kinetics 2011 12 477 BMC Genomics 1471-2164 10.1186/1471-2164-12-477 21962024 TODO (parker): The virulence plasmids pXO1 and pXO2 are available in GenBank as CP001216 and CP001214. This isolate was likely recovered by the Centers for Disease Control in the 1950's or 1960's from an imported hide or dead animal.