Definition of "mannose" [mannose]

• A monosaccharide, C6H12O6, obtained from mannan or by the oxidation of mannitol. (noun)

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• "The stuff. isn't an antibiotic, as the name suggests, but an endotoxin fraction-a complex organic sugar - called a mannose; it got its name from the fact that it's produced by fermentation, as antibiotics are."
• "You can also consume D-mannose, which is a 100\% natural sugar solution that attracts the harmful bacterium towards itself and flushes it out of the urinary tract."
• "Ohio State University researchers have determined that Mycobacterium tuberculosis has learned through evolution to coat itself with a sugar called mannose, which makes the bacterium attractive to cells in the lungs that are looking to clean up and discard unwanted sugar in the body."