<正> From a population with high hapatitis B virus（HBV）infection

289liver biopsies were performed

including39cases of chronic asymptomatichepatitis（ASH）

218 chronic asymptomatic carrier（AsC）

10 transientcarriers and22cases after ending of carrier status.Among AsC

therewere 7.3% of chronic active hepatiti（CAH）

22.0% of chronic persistenthepatitis（CPH）

10.6% of chronic lobular hepatitis（CLH）

48.2% of mi-nimal changes

and 11.9% of normal liver histology.The pathologicalchanges of AsH were more severe

that of transient carriers milder andsome after carrier status cases had still remained chronic hepatitis.Among257cases with chronic HBV infection there were 26（10.1%）asymptomaticCAH

and 61（23.7%）asymptomatic CPH

their importance in the compo-sition of HBV infections was emphasied.48.2% of AsC were the cases ofminimal changes

which might be a quite stable status of hypo-reactivity toprolonged HBV infection.From the above results

the clinico-pathologicalfeatures of HBV infection in high pravalence area might be:numerousasymptomatic infections and hypo-reactive type of infection status

but highfrequency of liver lesions

although most of them were mild.