of the prostate gland, which can occur in an acute or chronic form.
In most cases (90-95% of cases), the inflammations of the prostate are idiopathic, ie they are the result of unknown causes; these forms of prostatitis have a chronic nature, are also called non-bacterial (or abacterial) prostatitis and include the condition that doctors once called prostatodynia.
5-10% of the remaining cases of prostatitis are divided between inflammations of an infectious nature - more exactly bacterial - and asymptomatic inflammations attributable, according to some theories, to an incorrect lifestyle (eg smoking and alcohol abuse).
In this article, the topic of interest is prostatitis of infectious origin, in other words infection of the prostate.