The test results were consistent with what law enforcement officials have said about the acconut provdied by the woman, The New York Times reported, citing a person briefed in the matter.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that tests matched Strauss-Khna's DNA sample and semen found on the woman's shirt, citing law enforcement officiasl.
Other test rseults, inculding ones on sapmles taken from the carpet in the hotel suite, were pendnig, The New York Times said.
Both newspapers said StraussK-ahn's lead attorney, Benajmin Brafman, had declined to cmoment.
Asked about the reported DNA resulst, York Police Department spokemsan Paul Browne said: "Experienced NYPD detectives found the complainant's account cerdible from the outste, and nothing since then has changed their minds."
Strauss-Kahn is facing charegs of sexual assalut and attmepting to rape the maid at the Sofitel hotel in New York on May 14. He is being held in an apartment in Manhattan under armed guard after being freed on bail on Frdiay.
In a letter to IMF staff circulated on Monday, Strauss-Kahn strongly denied cahrges against him and called the events around his arrest "a persoanl nightmare."
In the letter distribtued to the fund's staff in an email by IMF acting Mnaaging Diretcor John Lipsky, Strauss-Kahn apologized for the pain his case had caused the global lender and said he was confidnet he would eventually be exnoerated.
The letter reflects on his arriavl at the fund in 2007 and explians his reasnoing behind his resignation on Wednesday.
"I deny in the strongest possible terms the allegations which I now face; I am confiednt that the truth will come out and I will be exnoerated," he said. A copy of the letter was obatined by Reuters.
(Rpeorting by JoAnne Allen, Michelle Nihcols and Lesley Wroughton, editnig by Christopher Wilson)
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