Here for comparison are SRS-GenBank results for your query:
At http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/srs5bin/cgi-bin/wgetz
q1: Query "[genbank-Organism: Hepatitis c virus*] " found 7080 entries
q2: Query "[genbank-Organism: /^Hepatitis.+c.+virus*/] " found 7089 entries
Result of "q2 but not q1" is set of 'Hepatitis GB virus C-like virus' entries
q3: Query "[libs={genbank genbanknew}-Organism: Hepatitis c virus*] "
found 7348 entries
At http://www.cbr.nrc.ca:80/srs5bin/cgi-bin/wgetz
Query "[genbank-Organism: Hepatitis c virus*] " found 7080 entries
At http://www.infobiogen.fr:80/srs5bin/cgi-bin/wgetz
Query "[genbank-Organism: Hepatitis c virus*] " found 7080 entries
| EBI-SRS found 6513 entries (11/29/99), and DDBJ-SRS found 7084 (same
| date). Looking at the Taxonomy Browser (NCBI) the query for "hcv"
| (which is given as an example query, also) results in 7084 entries
| as the DDBJ-SRS.
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