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This study explored if a similar approach could be proposed to control\n                      <jats:italic>T<\/jats:italic>\n                      .\n                      <jats:italic>solium<\/jats:italic>\n                      transmission in a post elimination setting in Zambia, focussing on community members\u2019 willingness to be sampled and treated.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methodology and Principal findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The study was conducted in a community where elimination of active\n                      <jats:italic>T<\/jats:italic>\n                      .\n                      <jats:italic>solium<\/jats:italic>\n                      transmission was achieved. All eligible pigs and people were sampled, at 4- to 6-monthly intervals, followed by implementation of the ring treatment approach. This implied that whenever a pig was seropositive for cysticercosis during sampling, every human and pig residing in a radius of 50-meters of the seropositive pig would be treated. The results of the positive human stool samples were used to create the rings, whenever no pigs were positive.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>From June 2018 to October 2019, four samplings, followed by ring treatments were conducted. Between 84% and 91% of the willing people provided a stool sample, covering 46% to 59% of the total population living in the study area. Between 78% and 100% of the eligible pigs got sampled. Three ring treatments were based on porcine seropositivity and one on taeniosis results. Two to four rings were opened per sampling. During the ring treatments, between 89% and 100% of the eligible human and pig population living within a ring was treated.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Participants were willing to participate and get treatment, once the rings were opened. However, the utility of ring treatment approaches in a post elimination setting needs further evaluation, given the lack of highly accurate diagnostic tools for porcine cysticercosis and the challenges in obtaining stool samples. 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