**2.4** *Chlamydiae***-induced antiapoptotic activity of infected host cells**

Infected cells seem to express antiapoptotic mechanisms like inhibition of caspase 3 activation, blockade of mitochondrial cytochrome c release, inhibition of Bax/Bak NFκB activation. In this way the microbe detours apoptosis, a well-described mechanism of infected cells by intracellular pathogens. CPAF has been described to have an important role in this direction [13].
