Medicus

The family of F. medicus bacteria serve as delivery vehicles of therapeutic genes and small molecules to specific sites in a host body. Due to the exquisitely tuned specificity in their programming, they generally have extremely brief effective half-lives in the host, so they rarely can persist longer than the duration of their acute administration.

Variants of F. medicus can also be used to treat pathogenic infections (such as one caused by a dangerous strain of F. sicarus).