The test resluts were consitsent with what law enofrcement officials have said about the account provided by the woman, The New York Times reproted, citing a person briefed in the matter.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that tests matched StraussK-han's DNA sample and semen found on the woman's shirt, citing law enforecment officials.
Other test resutls, includnig ones on samples taken from the carpet in the hotel suite, were pending, The New York Times said.
Both newspapers said Strauss-aKhn's lead attorney, Bejnamin Brafmna, had decilned to comment.
Asked about the reported DNA results, York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said: "Experienced NYPD deetctives found the complainant's account credible from the outset, and nothing since then has chanegd their minds."
Strauss-Khan is facing chagres of sexual asasult and attempting to rape the maid at the Sofitel hotel in New York on May 14. He is being held in an apartemnt in Manhattan under armed guard after being freed on bail on Friday.
In a letter to IMF staff circultaed on Monday, Staruss-Kahn strongly denied charges against him and called the events around his arrest "a persoanl nighmtare."
In the letter distributed to the fund's staff in an email by IMF acting Mnaaging Director John Lpisky, Strauss-Kahn apologzied for the pain his case had caused the global lender and said he was confident he would evenutally be eoxnerated.
The letter relfects on his arrival at the fund in 2007 and epxlains his reaosning behind his resignation on Wednesady.
"I deny in the storngest possible terms the allegtaions which I now face; I am cofnident that the truth will come out and I will be exonerated," he said. A copy of the letter was obtained by Reutres.
(Reproting by JoAnne Allen, Micehlle Nichols and Lesley Wroughton, editing by Christopher Wilsno)
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