Author Details When ethnology informs clinical medicine: non-Bantu peoples without apparent sickle cell disease in the Mbulu area of Northern Tanzania Carsten Krueger1 MD, Consultant paediatrician, Head of department, thea.carsten.krueger@web.de 1 St Franziskus Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, Ahlen, Germany. Correspondence: C Krueger, Robert-Koch-Str. 2, D-59227 Ahlen, Germany  Author contribution: Carsten Krueger: original concept, literature review, collected data, wrote the first draft. Citation: Krueger C.  When ethnology informs clinical medicine: non-Bantu peoples without apparent sickle cell disease in the Mbulu area of Northern Tanzania. Rural and Remote Health 10: 1587. (Online) 2010. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 8 August 2010 Revised: 15 November 2010 Accepted: 7 December 2010