Listeria monocytogenes associated with pyogenic spondylitis in a 92-year-old woman.

A 92-year-old woman with a history of hypertension presented to the hospital with a 1-day history of fever and back pain. One month earlier, she had been admitted to hospital for a L1 compression fracture, and 1 week before the current presentation, she had had nonbloody diarrhea for 3 days. On