Treatment is with an appropriate antibiotic. Chronic bacterial prostatitis is also relatively uncommon. It is basically acute prostatitis associated with an underlying defect in the prostate, a focal point for bacterial persistence in the urinary tract. Effective treatment usually requires identification and removal of the defect and then treatment with antibiotics. However, antibiotics often do not cure the infection.
Nonbacterial prostatitis is the most common form of the disease.
It is believed to occur eight times more often than bacterial prostatitis. Unfortunately, it is also the least understood. Nonbacterial prostatitis is frequently a chronic, painful condition found in men of any age. Symptoms go away and then return without warning. Urine and fluids from the prostate show no evidence of a known infecting organism, but semen and other fluids from the prostate contain cells that the body usually produces to fight infection.