Factors | Benefits | Costs |
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Regulations | Professional conscientiousness | Lack of technical justification: a brucellosis outbreak would be detected by a significant abortion episode or by active surveillance |
 | Technical justification: brucellosis may cause late abortion (after six months of pregnancy |  |
Technical | Technical interest in identifying the cause of the abortion | Difficulties in identifying the cause of abortion |
 |  | 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 |
 |  | Low impact of sanitary and medical measures to prevent further abortions due to enzootic diseases |
Financial | Â | The farmer refused to pay additional costs for analyses and sanitary/medical measures to prevent further abortions |
Practical | Â | Time schedule with farmer |
 |  | Lack of time to seek advice about differential diagnosis |