ABSTRACT
To explore the relationship between meteorological factors and incidences of fever, thrombocytopenia and leukopenia syndrome (FTLS), incidence data of FTLS in Xinyang City were collected and described. The relationship between FTLS and monthly meteorological factors such as average atmospheric pressure, average temperature, average relative humidity, average wind speed and precipitation was analyzed with simple correlation and multi-stepwise linear regression. The results showed that there was a significant negative correlation between incidence of FTLS and monthly average atmospheric pressure (P<0.01), and there were significant positive correlations between monthly average temperature, monthly average relative humidity, monthly precipitation and incidence of FTLS (P<0.05). The multi-stepwise regression showed that the regression equation was Y (monthly cases) =-12.70 + 0.28X2 (monthly average temperature), and the coefficient of determination was 0.76. The incidences of FTLS are correlated with temperature.