Cowdry bodies

Cowdry bodies are eosinophilic or basophilic[1] nuclear inclusions composed of nucleic acid and protein seen in cells infected with Herpes simplex virus, Varicella-zoster virus, and Cytomegalovirus.

They are named after Edmund Cowdry.

There are two types of intranuclear Cowdry bodies: Light microscopy is used for detection of Cowdry bodies.

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