The usual 'heat resistant' bacteria or thermophiles are free living organisms with specific niche and are not pathogenic. Most pathogens are mesophiles and that is why they are grow in the body temperature. Spores are thermotolerant but spores are dormant and are not actively growing microbes.
Having said that, different mesophiles can have different levels of thermotolerance. Pyrexia (fever) is not necessarily a defensive mechanism and is more of a by-product of a systemic inflammatory response. Moreover bacteria are more tolerant to temperature changes than our body; there are definitely other mechanisms to combat infection. Read about innate and acquired immune response.