“We are talking about a failure to apply protocols, a lack of reaction both from the DSP director and from the hospital. Mary” Hospital in Iași. Mary” Hospital and infected with Serratia was transferred to a hospital in Bucharest, where the test turned negative after three days. Two other children, admitted in the same area of the medical unit, proved to be negative for this pathogenic germ as well. Romanian authorities began investigating the "St. Mary" Pediatric Hospital in Iași, eastern Romania, after six children died while infected with the Serratia Marcescens bacteria.