Cowdry type A inclusions
Cowdry type 1 inclusions, Cowdry type I inclusions
Definition: Large, pink to purple, eosinophilic intranuclear inclusions of nucleic acid and protein seen in cells infected with herpes simplex or varicella-zoster virus.
They contain intact and disrupted virions and push darkly stained host cell chromatin to the edges of the nucleus.
Exempels
HSV infections (Herpes Simplex Virus infection)
VZV infections (varicella-zoster virus)