What is the fastest that an ordinary biological system could be digested / disintegrated / liquefied by another (plausible) biological system?

How quickly could a bacterial colony / virus / pool-'o-prions / [whatever] digest, disintegrate, or otherwise liquefy an ordinary terrestrial biological system? Think something along the lines of "The Blob."

The 'eating' organism(s) can be the result of amazingly advanced genetic engineering, but the end result would have to be plausible.

Feel free to limit the 'eating' organism's capabilities to a specific kind of cell, if that would make a significant difference! (Say, it only eats plant cells, for instance. Or animal cells.)

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