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Intra-domiciliary habitat conditions were improved by cementing, coupled with accompanying measures, from March 2013 to September 2015. Application of this strategy was associated with a significant reduction of borreliosis incidence. This was more evident in Dielmo, dropping from 10.55 to 2.63 cases per 100 person-years (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.001), than in Ndiop where it changed from 3.79 to 1.39 cases per 100 person-years (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.001). Thirty-six cases of TBRF were estimated to be prevented at a cost of \u20ac526 per infection. The preventive control strategy was successful in Dielmo and Ndiop, being associated with decreased incidence by 89.8% and 81.5%, respectively, suggesting that TBRF may be widely decreased when the population is involved. Public health authorities or any development stakeholders should adopt this effective tool for promoting rural health through national prevention programs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.15-0776","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,7,19]],"date-time":"2016-07-19T02:38:47Z","timestamp":1468895927000},"page":"537-545","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["An Alternative Strategy of Preventive Control of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever in Rural Areas of Sine-Saloum, Senegal"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"95","author":[{"given":"Georges","family":"Diatta","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1Institut de Recherche pour le D\u00e9veloppement, Unit\u00e9 de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales \u00c9mergentes (UMR 198 IRD), Campus International de Recherche IRD\/UCAD de Hann, Dakar, 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