title: [Georges Moustardier, physician of the Colonial Health Service and Overseas Pasteur Institutes and university professor].
abstract: The purpose of this article is to provide a step-by-step description of Georges Moustardier's career. After completing studies at the Ecole Principale du Service de Santé de la Marine et des Colonies in Bordeaux, and at the Ecole d'Application du Service de Santé des Troupes Coloniales in Marseille, he was deployed to Indochina where he served as physician first at the Poulo Condor penitentiary from (1929 to 1930) and then in Cambodia from (1931 to 32). In 1933, he returned to Paris where he followed lectures on Microbiology at the Institut Pasteur, in Paris. He was then assigned to the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar from 1931 to 1932. From 1939 to 1944, he was Head of the General Hospital in Brazzaville, Congo and Director of the Medical School in French Equatorial Africa. He retired from the army in 1946. From 1949 to 1972, he held an academic position as Professor of Bacteriology at the Bordeaux School of Medicine.
authors.affiliation: Faculté de Médecine, Université Montpellier 1. parasito@univ-montpl.fr
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Dedet
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000266:history*; D005602:France; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008270:Madagascar; D008297:Male; D008829:Microbiology / Q000266:history*; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000266:history*; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*