Therefore I now believe, contrary to many urologists, that prostatic yeast infections are common. Well, someone else, with more expertise, ought to answer that. All I can say is that they are one-celled fungi. Some of them are ubiquitous. One of the most common pathogenic yeasts is Candida albicans, which is often responsible women's vaginal yeast infections.
Yeast thrive on sugars.
Diabetics and immunocompromised people tend to have trouble with yeast infections. Sometimes they invade the prostate. The bacteria take over and the yeasts are suppressed to a low level. When the bacteria are eradicated by antibiotics, the yeasts emerge again and have to be treated separately. If there is anything novel here, it is in the supposition that the primary infection of the prostate can be a yeast infection, with a secondary bacterial infection following and taking over.