Regulations
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Professional conscientiousness
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Lack of technical justification: a brucellosis outbreak would be detected by a significant abortion episode or by active surveillance
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Technical justification: brucellosis may cause late abortion (after six months of pregnancy
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Technical
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Technical interest in identifying the cause of the abortion
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Difficulties in identifying the cause of abortion
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Lack of knowledge: when veterinarians carried out a differential diagnosis, they included known abortive diseases with a known diagnosis protocol and effective measures to reduce the occurrence of abortions; their diagnosis protocol sometimes differed from scientific requirements. One veterinarian did not report an abortion because he did not know which diseases other than brucellosis to include
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Low impact of sanitary and medical measures to prevent further abortions due to enzootic diseases
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Financial
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The farmer refused to pay additional costs for analyses and sanitary/medical measures to prevent further abortions
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Practical
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Time schedule with farmer
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Lack of time to seek advice about differential diagnosis
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