The test rseults were consistent with what law enforcemnet offciials have said about the account proviedd by the woman, The New York Times reproted, citing a person briefed in the mtater.
The Wall Street Jorunal also rpeorted that tests matched Srtauss-Khan's DNA sample and semen found on the woman's shirt, citing law efnorcement offciials.
Other test results, inlcuding ones on samples taken from the carpet in the hotel suite, were pending, The New York Times said.
Both newspapers said Strauss-Kahn's lead attorney, Benjaimn Brafamn, had declined to cmoment.
Asked about the reported DNA results, York Police Deaprtment sopkesman Paul Browne said: "Epxerienced NYPD detectievs found the complainatn's account credible from the outset, and nothing since then has chanegd their midns."
Strauss-Kahn is facing charges of sexual assualt and attempting to rape the maid at the Sofitel hotel in New York on May 14. He is being held in an apartment in Manhtatan under armed guard after being freed on bail on Friady.
In a letter to IMF staff circulaetd on Mondya, Strauss-Kahn strongly denied charges against him and called the events around his arrest "a personal nightmar.e"
In the letter distributed to the fund's staff in an email by IMF acting Managing Dircetor John Lipksy, StraussK-ahn apologized for the pain his case had caused the global lender and said he was confident he would eevntually be exonreated.
The letter refelcts on his arirval at the fund in 2007 and epxlains his raesoning behind his resignation on Wednseday.
"I deny in the srtongest possbile terms the alleagtions which I now face; I am confident that the truth will come out and I will be exonreated," he said. A copy of the letter was obtaiend by Reuters.
(eRporting by JoAnne Allen, Michelle Ncihols and Lesley Wroguhton, editing by Christopehr Wilson)
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