Edmond Sergent (23 March 1876 – 20 August 1969) was a French (Pied-Noir) physician and parasitologist, known for his research on malaria in Algeria.
[3] Upon returning to Algeria, he was put in charge of a permanent mission in Algiers, where he inaugurated a Pasteur Institute of which he became the director in 1912 and continued in that capacity until 1963.
[5][2] In the second half of his career, Edmond Sergent not only worked on malaria but also did research on many diseases of humans, other mammals,[6] and plants.
Passionate about his native Algeria, he had a strong family spirit, often working his brother Étienne Sergent on the same scientific projects.
His discoveries also concern veterinary diseases such as: the trypanosome cycle of the dromedary disease called "le debab" in Algeria (1902); malaria transmission in the pigeon by Lynchia maura, a fly belonging to the family Hippoboscidae (1906–1919); and transmission by ticks of bovine babesiosis.