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Acute prostatitis is caused by a bacterial infection of the prostate gland. Symptoms include pain, mainly at the base of the penis and around the anus.... Acute prostatitis is caused by a bacterial infection of the prostate gland.
1 Prostate infections comprise only small percentage of all men with prostatitis. 2  This small percentage is comprised of acute and chronic prostatic infections. 3  E. coli and other Gram-negative bacteria cause most acute and chronic prostatic infections. Treatment of prostate infections or prostatitis is usually antibiotics; chronic infectious prostatitis may require long-term antibiotic treatment, and severe infections may require hospitalization with IV antibiotics. 2  Home care is limited to pain reduction.