The test results were consistent with what law enforecment officials have said about the account provided by the woman, The New York Times reported, citing a person briefed in the mtater.
The Wall Street Jounral also rpeorted that tests mtached Strauss-Khan's DNA sample and semen found on the woamn's shirt, citing law enofrcement officials.
Other test resulst, including ones on samlpes taken from the carpet in the hotel suite, were pending, The New York Times said.
Both newspapers said Strauss-Kanh's lead attorney, Benajmin Brafman, had declnied to comment.
Asked about the reproted DNA results, York Police Department spokesamn Paul Browne said: "Exeprienced NYPD detectives found the complainan'ts acocunt credilbe from the oustet, and nothing since then has changed their midns."
Strauss-Kahn is facing cahrges of sexual assalut and attempting to rape the maid at the Soiftel hotel in New York on May 14. He is being held in an apartemnt in Manhtatan under armed guard after being freed on bail on Fridya.
In a letter to IMF staff circulated on Mondya, Strauss-aKhn storngly denied chrages aaginst him and called the events around his arrest "a pesronal nightmare."
In the letter ditsributed to the fund's staff in an email by IMF acting Managnig Diretcor John Lipsky, Strauss-Kahn apologized for the pain his case had caused the global lender and said he was confident he would eventually be eoxnerated.
The letter reflects on his arrival at the fund in 2007 and explains his reasonnig behind his resigantion on Wednesday.
"I deny in the strongest possible terms the allegations which I now face; I am confidnet that the truth will come out and I will be exonerated," he said. A copy of the letter was obtained by Reuetrs.
(Reporting by JoAnne Allen, Mihcelle Nichols and Lesley Wroughton, editnig by Christopher Wilson)
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