Chronic prostatitis has two types. One is chronic nonbacterial prostatitis and the other is chronic bacterial prostatitis. In clinical, lots of chronic prostatitis is nonbacterial type and the bacterial type only has 5% percent, which are general bacteria. Chronic prostatitis, as a collection of series diseases, includes chronic bacterial prostatitis and chronic nonbacterial prostatitis.
In clinical, most of chronic prostatitis is nonbacterial prostatitis and only 5% are bacterial prostatitis. If it is nonbacterial prostatitis, no bacteria can be found and this type is very safe, so it isn’t contagious. What’s more, if there are some bacteria, because of the strong ability of resistance of women’s vagina, it is harder for women to affect those bacteria.