When ethnology informs clinical medicine: non-Bantu peoples without apparent sickle cell disease in the Mbulu area of Northern Tanzania

Carsten Krüger

qualifications: MD

contribution: original concept, literature review, collected data, wrote the first draft

position: Consultant paediatrician, Head of department

Germany

Consultant paediatrician, neonatologist, paediatric gastroenterologist, Master of International Health (Curtin), FRCPCH (UK). Chairman of the German Association of Tropical Paediatrics. Working, teaching and research experience in Germany and Tanzania. Research interests: neonatal, child and maternal health, nutrition, infectious diseases, rural health, quality of health care.