Cowdry bodies

Cowdry bodies are eosinophilic 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:

Type A (as seen in herpes and VZV infections) ^[1]
Type B (as seen in infection with poliovirus), though it may seem that this is an antiquated and perhaps illusory type.^[2]

Light microscopy is used for detection of cowdry bodies.

References

Eponymous medical signs for infectious disease

Bacterial disease	syphilis Hutchinson's teeth Hutchinson's triad Abelin reaction Westphal's sign Clutton's joints Dennie-Marfan syndrome

Viral disease	measles Koplik's spots Warthin-Finkeldey cell yellow fever Councilman body Tzanck test Inclusion bodies: poxvirus Downie bodies/A Guarnieri bodies/B rabies Negri bodies Cowdry bodies Liebermeister's rule Faget sign

Parasitic disease	Chagas disease (Romana's sign) African trypanosomiasis (Winterbottom's sign) malaria (Schüffner's dots)

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